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Samson's Jawbone;Whipping Those Philistines 1000 at a Time: The End of A Wonderful Relationship.

Samson's Jawbone;Whipping Those Philistines 1000 at a Time: The End of A Wonderful Relationship. : It has been over 10-years now that I have enjoyed my Internet relationship with Mozilla. The company behind the search engine Firefox,  the ...

The End of A Wonderful Relationship.

It has been over 10-years now that I have enjoyed my Internet relationship with Mozilla. The company behind the search engine Firefox,  the email client server Thunderbird and technologies like Java Script; as of today it ends. Mozilla describes itself as a not-for profit Internet community which seeks to be a vehicle of tolerance and free expression, a group that is dedicated to making the web available and accessible to everyone without regard to differences of culture. Their actions this week belies their claim. They fired their CEO Brendan Eich, not because of performance, or even some public act outside the job that embarrassed the company. They fired him because more than 5- years ago before he worked forthem he exercised his rights as US Citizen to make a contribution to a political cause. He made a $1000.00 contribution to a proposed California ballot initiative commonly known as Proposition 8 , which made gay marriage illegal in California. The proposition passed before bei