Since Eich's appointment, three members of Mozilla's board have resigned in protest, and now online dating site OkCupid has given its two cents on the matter, urging users to switch to a browser other than Firefox when using their service.
When using Firefox, if you navigate to the OkCupid homepage, you'll be greeted a message that includes the following:
"Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.
Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there's a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we're asserting ourselves today. This is why: we've devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we've worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it's professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure."
Below the message are links to the pages for three alternative browsers: Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome. At the very bottom of the page is another link that will let you continue on to use the rest of the site.
Amid the controversy, Eich has defended himself, releasing an official statement in which he said "words alone will not change anything. I can only ask for your support to have the time to "show, not tell"; and in the meantime express my sorrow at having caused pain."
It'll be interesting to see if any other firms throw Mozilla under the bus over their hiring of Eich, and how Mozilla reacts to the backlash.
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