<story><title> Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/gay-firefox-developers-boycott-mozilla-to-protest-ceo-hire/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jack-r-abbit</author><text>Meh. Prop 8 passed the people&amp;#x27;s vote with 7,001,084 Californians voting in favor of it and 6,401,482 voting against. Are we to start boycotting every company that employs one of those 7 million people?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad it was made right in the end and I hope at least some of those 7 million people have changed their opinion... but I don&amp;#x27;t think we need to keep dwelling on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redbad</author><text>1. There is a difference between voting for something and funding it.&lt;p&gt;2. There is a difference between being employed by a company and being its CEO.&lt;p&gt;3. These differences are significant.</text></comment>
<story><title> Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/gay-firefox-developers-boycott-mozilla-to-protest-ceo-hire/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jack-r-abbit</author><text>Meh. Prop 8 passed the people&amp;#x27;s vote with 7,001,084 Californians voting in favor of it and 6,401,482 voting against. Are we to start boycotting every company that employs one of those 7 million people?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad it was made right in the end and I hope at least some of those 7 million people have changed their opinion... but I don&amp;#x27;t think we need to keep dwelling on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fomite</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s perfectly reasonable for developers to &amp;quot;keep dwelling&amp;quot; on someone telling them they should have less rights because of who they&amp;#x27;ve chosen to love.</text></comment>