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“Even though that apology [post from Mozilla] says they encourage staff and community to share their opinions and beliefs in public, don’t bother. The comments section is closed.” Guess who doesn’t allow comments on their YouTube videos?

The Boston Globe reports on the Heartbleed bug that has IT departments scrambling across the nation. The word “Heartbleed” meant nothing at the start of the week. Today it is one of the hottest topics on the Internet — a simple security bug in an obscure piece of software that could compromise the personal information of millions. And while the …

Back in December, Faith Driven Consumer used the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index to create a list of pro-gay companies for Christians to boycott during their holiday shopping. Today the group issued a press release which demands that Mozilla respond to three questions. According to pro-gay advocates, it’s theoretically acceptable for companies like Mozilla to hire Christians as long …

Mother Jones reports that that ten years ago OKCupid CEO Sam Yagen  donated to the campaign of a GOP member of the House who went on to vote for a federal ban on same-sex marriage. The dating website’s boycott of Mozilla pushed the flap about former CEO Brendan Eich into the national headlines. Yagan donated $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon …

“Here this man at Mozilla, Eich, had given $1,000 about six or seven years ago – $1,000 – to a proposition .And somebody came around and said, ‘Will you contribute?’ And he said, ‘Here’s a grand, get off my back.’ I mean, that’s probably all that it amounted to. But instead of that, he’s being forced out by gay activists, …

Microsoft has announced that as of today it will no longer support its Windows XP operating system. “It’s an old operating system,” said Tom Murphy, director of communications for Windows. “Think of the cellphone you were using in the late ’90s compared to what you see today. XP doesn’t do the things we expect from our PCs or devices today.” …

Yesterday Andrew Sullivan acknowledged that the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was not the work of gay activists but came as the result of pressure from the “techie straight left.” (Ben Shapiro appears to concede that point as well.) But Sullivan remains outraged. A civil rights movement without toleration is not a civil rights movement; it is a cultural …

Google wants to trademark the word “glass.” Mashable reports that the US Patent Office has a couple of problems with that. The tech giant wants the trademark, of course, for its Google Glass eyewear. It already has the trademark for “Google Glass,” but is seeking an additional trademark for the word “Glass” by itself, styled in the futuristic font Google …

On Friday, Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro launched a boycott petition and uninstall campaign against Mozilla and its browser Firefox on his website Truth Revolt. Today Shapiro claims that his campaign has resulted in thousands of complaints on Mozilla’s website. Mozilla publishes its feedback at the URL http://input.mozilla.org. The record dates back to April 2012. In that time, there has never …

“A leading supporter of gay marriage, [Andrew] Sullivan warned other supporters not to practice ‘a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else.’ I can’t get quite as worked up as he did. For one thing, prominent gay rights groups weren’t part of the Mozilla fray. For another, Mozilla isn’t the first company to make leadership decisions (or reconsiderations) …

“Would Sullivan rush to this guy’s defense if it turned out he was a Grand Wizard in the KKK? Of course not. We are allowed to be intolerant of people who operate outside the bounds of civil decency. This wasn’t governmental action infringing on any Constitutional rights. This was Mozilla developers saying they refused to do work with a bigot, …

“Why not demand that those who oppose gay marriage relinquish the right to own property? Why not take away their right to vote? Why not take away their children? Why not just throw them in jail? Why not force them to work in chain gangs? Why not call for public floggings? Or better yet, let’s just strap them down on …

Mozilla’s Firefox account on Twitter has 2.4M followers and they have responded to many complaints today.

OnTop Magazine points out that former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has deleted his Twitter account. What this means, who can say?

Courage Campaign “Across the country, the LGBT community and progressive activists are heartened by Mozilla’s decisive action to remove Mr. Eich as the CEO of their for-profit and nonprofit ventures. It is a testament to the power of online grassroots organizing. The decision to hold its CEO to the same high standards of inclusion and equality that the company advocates, …

“It is time for the rest of us to wake up. Tolerating the same-sex movement has been a very bad idea. You cannot tolerate what undermines democracy and ultimately destroys society. The same-sex lobby are the new Nazis. Their strategy consists simply in intimidating possible opponents. The vicious campaign against Brendan Eich is ultimately directed not only against him, but …

“The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant …

In a statement published this afternoon to her corporate blog, Mozilla chairwoman Mitchell Baker announced that CEO Brendan Eich has stepped down. Baker’s statement opens: Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we …