Chris Beard has already been (interim) CEO of Mozilla for three and a half months now: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forward/ https://

Chris Beard has already been (interim) CEO of Mozilla for three and a half months now: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forward/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forw... I would assume, though I could be proved wrong, that any of his political/social/religious/other positions that he or anyone else wanted to make public would be well known by now. (Remember that Brendan Eich's Proposition 8 donation was well known two years before he was promoted to CEO.) My personal views, not necessarily shared by other Mozillians: Brendan's support of Prop. 8 was part of both public record and common knowledge, including his public response to the 2012 controversy around it. With this knowledge, the MoCo board promoted him to CEO. Both this decision and his decision to step down were controversial because of his public political activity. Now, if a new CEO candidate had taken actions similar to Brendan's, that would reasonably affect their views and the board's (and Mozilla's staff, community, users, partners, etc.) about whether it would best serve the project for the board to name them CEO. Obviously, eyes on Mozilla in this regard. But it does not necessarily follow - as much as some people want it to - that every belief held by the new candidate must be suddenly made public and deemed relevant to their job. I there's a version of the fundamental attribution error at work here [1]. People have decided that politicization of the CEO role is something intrinsic to Mozilla in particular, rather than something that would happen with any organization that put itself in a similar situation. (And conversely, not happen when the situation is not similar.) It truth, the same situation could repeat itself. But if it does, it's just as likely - probably more likely - to involve a different company and a different individual. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Attribution_Error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Attribution_Error