What is the reason why homosexual Firefox application developers boycotted against Mozilla's new CEO?

ByRobyn Ramsay

Known by FirefoxMozilla FoundationOn March 14, 2014Brendan IkeMs.Presented CEO inaugurationDid. As Mr. Ike served as Chief Technology Officer of the Mozilla Foundation before he assumed office as CEO, I was supposed to develop the company from the technical point of view, not business, but the application of Firefox An unusual situation arises that developers boycott against Mr. Ike 's inauguration as CEO.

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Following Mr. Ike's appointment as the CEO of the Mozilla Foundation,Firefox MarketplacePublish application withRarebitIt is CEO ofHampton CatlinMr. Official Website "Dear MozillaPublished a message entitled "Message".

In the message "I decided to boycott all the projects that we are collaborating with Mozilla as a couple marrying gays and we will not do anything to develop applications for Firefox at Firefox Marketplace Deleting the application "Color Puzzle" which is being published, we also stopped the development of the application that was going to be released.We will continue boycotting until Mr. Ike retires from CEO. "


Mr. Catlin will support the proposal No. 8 (Proposition 8) of the California Constitution, which includes provisions limiting gay marriage by limiting marriage between men and womenDonated $ 1000 (about 100,000 yen) to the organizationIt is said. In the State of California, proposal No. 8 passed after the referendum held in 2008, gay marriage is prohibited. Later, two pairs of couple complained, and in California the same sex marriage is lifted again in 2013.

Mr. Catlin himself got married between homosexuals, and it is impossible for a company who criticizes his own morality to support companies that have full power. Also, Mr. Christie Kohler, who heads Mozilla Education, as well as Mr. Catrin, on Mr. Ike's CEO inaugurationI showed disappointment"The openingness and inventiveness which is the policy of Mozilla do not change with this personnel affair" is claimed.


Mr. Ike wrote articles on his donation to the organization that supports Proposition 8 for his blog in 2012. Although the article does not mention the reason for donation, it is written to those who condemn their behavior "The donation does not indicate my hostile to homosexuals" and does not indicate the reason It condemned those who deny by seeing Mr. Ike 's behavior only.

The next day Mr. Catlin started boycott, Mozilla said "Statement on diversity"The company and the community and employees belonging to the company promised to provide uniform services to all men and women including homosexual couples and that diversity created by culture and country is the only thing Is a policy of Mozilla.

ByFrancesco Lodolo

In addition, Rarebit's application Color Puzzle is still deleted from Firefox Marketplace as it is writing articles.