Mozilla say they are open and inclusive: but change your mind or you get sacked
A half-dozen years ago, Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to the campaign for Proposition 8 , the California ballot initiative that set out to ban same-sex marriage. It passed with 52 percent of the vote, but was later overturned by the courts. Eich, the pro-Proposition 8 donor, stepped down as CEO of Mozilla , a company he co-founded, because various stakeholders at the company objected to his political donation from six years ago. At that time, a majority of Californians and an even bigger majority of Americans, including Barack Obama , the commander-in-chief who "evolved" to end the ban on gays and lesbians in the military, believed that gay marriage ought to be illegal. (In fact, that same year, around 40 percent of Americans thought gay sex should be illegal .) Now? "The backlash against Mozilla, which produces the Firefox Web browser , included calls for his resignation from developer groups and Mozilla's employees," the San Jose Mercury News reported,