Posted on 03/25/2014 1:23:18 PM PDT by markomalley
A pair of gay developers have launched a boycott of Firefox in protest against the Mozilla Foundation's decision to appoint a CEO who appears to be an opponent of same sex marriage. Mozilla co-founder and Javascript creator Brendan Eich was awarded the top job yesterday.
Hampton Catlin, creator of Wikipedia Mobile and CSS extension language Sass, said he would no longer develop apps for Firefox after Eich's appointment.
The dev cited a six-year-old database of donor contributions to campaigns in support and opposition of Proposition 8 listing Brendan Eich, (Employer: Mozilla) as a $1,000 contributor to a campaign in support of the anti-gay marriage California ballot proposition.
Prop 8 was struck down after being ruled unconstitutional in 2010 and the final appeal was put to bed in June last year.
Catlin and his husband run a development firm called Rarebit which makes a game called Color Puzzle and was set to bring a dictionary app to Firefox Marketplace.
In a blog post, Catlin wrote: "As a married gay couple who are co-founders of this venture, we have chosen to boycott all Mozilla projects. We will not develop apps or test styles on Firefox any more.
"This is in protest of the appointment of Brendan Eich to the position of CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, where he had previously served as CTO. We will continue our boycott until Brendan Eich is completely removed from any day to day activities at Mozilla, which we believe is extremely unlikely after all he’s survived and the continued support he has received from Mozilla.”
Catlin and his British husband Michael were unable to get married in California until recently.
The pair always dreamed of starting a company together, but Michael's visa was tied to his employment status. As it was not possible to marry, they were unable to found a new firm.
When the Supreme Court repealed Proposition 8, the lovers immediately rushed to San Francisco City Hall to get married. A post-nuptials picture of them was then published on the front page of the New York Times.
“Today, Michael has a green card and we’re able to pursue this venture in the US,” said Catlin. “These days, I am so damn proud of my country for making this all possible. So, that’s why it’s personal for us. Brendan Eich was an active supporter of denying our right to be married and even to start this business."
We have contacted Mozilla to ask them for a statement on their position regarding Eich's contribution, but there has been no response. We'll update this article if we hear back.
Eich himself blogged about the controversy over his donation last year on his website, maintaining that "Mozilla had nothing to do with the donation" and "Donors above a certain amount are required by the State of California to disclose their employer". ®
You noticed that too? Why didn't they boycott the baker and refuse to buy cakes from there? That word "boycott" should be changed to "gaycott" when they use it; because of their hypocritical stance of wanting it "both" ways.
typical Liberal mind response
“Tolerance means only what we say it means, which is NOT tolerance if we don’t agree with you, but it is always an issue of tolerance if you don’t agree with us.”
How do you boycott something that you can download without charge?
:’)
Yea, Firefox only for me for several years now, with Ghostery, NoScript, AdBlock+ ... its the only way to surf ... this is just icing on the cake ...
I just wish Feedly worked properly on Firefox (it may for some, but I've never been able to get it to work correctly...and that is both in the Windoze and Ubuntu versions). And, as much as I hate to admit it, I do like Chrome's Cookie Whitelist as the best cookie muncher that I have seen out there (I use "self destructing cookies" in Firefox, but it doesn't seem to work quite as well IMHO)
Otherwise, I like Firefox as well.
That information should have been private, but for a lawless judge.
yeah, right!
Same here!
Indeed.
Thanks very much to the screeching homosexuals for providing a great ad!!!
I tried to download and install firefox this morning. Never was successful and install came with several crap programs. Any suggestions on how I can just install firefox?
What OS on you working with?
Sorry... what OS are you working with?
“Why is it that every decision made by any company has to be judged by whether or not they support one man putting his penis into another man’s rectum?”
My bad. I’m not up on my anatomical “exit-only port” terminology.
‘My bad. I’m not up on my anatomical “exit-only port” terminology.”
Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:
Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.
I’m using windows 8.1 and I think I have solved my problem.
Get treatment, sodomites.
“I run Ubuntu.”
What’s the learning curve like on that? I’m going senile pretty quickly, and don’t want to get into a tar-baby situation.
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