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FWIW mozilla is a huge supporter of open and free access to the internet, as well as consumer privacy. They have also launched something recently, IIRC it was a privacy product. (probably to the benefit of the consumer and the OSS community, and probably free as well).

We should fight this, especially in a post-Snowden world.

The reason? All it takes for this guy to lose his job and "conservatives" to boycott his million dollar company was an attack on his reputation, screenshotted from a website, of a political campaign donation. Very classic "Smear-campaign attack" practiced by TPB for centuries.

Did Mozilla support the "HTTPS everything" as well?

Latch onto news item, shout a lot on TV.

Squeaky wheels & grease.

Here is the Simplified English on what has happened until now, for those who did not follow:

- There is a class with an X number of students

- Among those students are B. Eich and L. Joe

- During a class meeting, the class starts to discuss what they should get for launch: apples, or apples and oranges

- Eich said that the launch should be apples, Joe wanted the chance to choice between apples and oranges

- The choice has fallen on apples only

- On the next week, this has been changed, now it's apples or oranges

- On the following week, Eich becomes the head of the Mathematics Study Group

- In said group, students are present from both sides

- Joe asks his friends to boycott the study group, claiming that Eich is not fitting for the task because he hates oranges

- Few group members ask Eich to leave. Most say that the claims neither it is related to maths, nor does it disturb them

- Next day, Eich leaves the Math group to protect his fellow number-lovers

- Apple-only students start to boycott the maths group for outing Eich

Oh, and before any of you claim that marriage rights are not on the same level as choosing a fruit, I'd like to remind you that: a.) this is to show reactions of persons and groups, not about the topic of argument, and b.) eating is one of the most elemental need of any living human.