For those who are asking about his politics and getting downvoted, here's why. His politics almost certainly don't matter, UNLESS they are way outside those of the majority of his "constituents". For example, if he pro-religious-freedom, that's fine. If he's for a flat-tax, that's okay to most folks. If he's pro-choice, there are a few who'd get grumpy. If he's a climate-change denier, a lot of folks would question his thinking and/or ethics. If he was an enthusiastic neo-nazi, we'd start marching on Mozilla. For Mozilla's constituents (users, developers, employees), being anti-LGBT was well outside the realm of acceptable political beliefs.

In short, let's leave politics out of this kind of stuff UNLESS the candidate is demonstrably in one of the outer circles of "unacceptable viewpoints".

So it's hard to tell if the existing comments are trying to be snarky or if they just failed to explain their non-snarky intent, but they're getting voted down into an abyss and I would sincerely like to know what his political background is. So far my searches only yield people who are probably not the same Chris Beard. I do not mean this question to voice any particular opinion or as a commentary on the last CEO, but given the reason a new CEO was needed in the first place, I think it would be very interesting to see the political background of the person they chose as a replacement. Are they publicly pro-gay? Or have they been relatively neutral?

What were Chris Beard's qualifications to become CEO? Honestly curious.

Wow, this comment thread went full Reddit in record time.

Has Chris Beard made any public political donations?

EDIT: Why the downvotes?

Wow, the comments...

Some people seem to be really mad about some other people voicing their opinion.

Whatever. I just hope Mozilla will not run out of money as Gnome Foundation did. Firefox is harder to replace than Gnome.

A political donation of $1,000 that someone (presumably more than one someone, but who knows) in Mozilla did not like, and the CEO is ousted. http://lodes.net

It would be interesting to sue OkCupid for coercing Mozilla to violate anti-discrimination laws. Which brings up the fact that I don't really like them. I am thinking of ditching them, but allowing the EEOC or similar to order particular sets of companies to stop discrimination for a period of time if necessary.

Watching how the comments here have sunk gives me little hope for Hacker News.

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In other news, Chris Mustache named CEO of Google Chrome

No word on if he supports the GLBT community hook, line and sinker. That's the litmus.

EDIT: Wow. So if he does support the GLBT community, we don't need to know about it? My post that offensive to people? It's an important question to ask.

Edit 2: I just love tolerance ;)

Edit 3: I'm removing the /sarcasm tag because people are really confused by it for some reason.

Read this backwards at the first go. "CEO of Mozilla named Chris Beard."

Presumably he's not donated to campaigns which are not approved by the elite.

Whatever. I'm sure we can find something completely unrelated in his background to disqualify him. Just give the Internet a little bit of time.