In 2012, it was revealed Brendan Eich had made a personal $1,000 donation in support of California’s Prop 8 in 2008. His resignation comes in the wake of criticism from Mozilla employees, board members, and companies like OKCupid.
Co-founder and recently appointed Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich announced his resignation today following a controversy over his support of California’s Proposition 8.
While Mozilla employees and others made personal protests on Twitter, the dating site OkCupid urged users to boycott Firefox.
Re/Code also says that their stepping down was only tangentially related to Eich, but "none of them supported his selection as CEO."
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn't live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it's because we haven't stayed true to ourselves.
We didn't act like you'd expect Mozilla to act. We didn't move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We're sorry. We must do better.
Via blog.mozilla.org