The Chief Executive of Mozilla Firefox, Brendan Eich, was forced to resign in April following a targeted campaign by LGBT groups, who opposed his $1000 donation in support of a Californian law upholding marriage between one man and one woman.
Mr Eich, who co-founded Mozilla and created the JavaScript programming language, made his donation in 2008.
Following his appointment in March this year, the dating website OkCupid urged a boycott of Mozilla Firefox and directed its users to select other internet browsers. Those who visited the website using Mozilla’s free Firefox browser saw a message reading: ‘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’.
The website ActRight has launched a petition asking people to support ‘the free speech and conscience rights of the Mozilla CEO.’
