Posted on 04/05/2014 9:14:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Conservative activist Ben Shapiro is leading up an online charge of fellow political compadres to boycott the browser Firefox — an outraged response to the Mozilla chief’s departure from his CEO role due to gay rights’ protests.
Former CEO Brendan Eich, who’s been with Mozilla since its creation and actually helped found the company’s charitable offshoot foundation in 1998, announced this week he’s stepping down from the role over a flap generated by a $1,000 donation he made to a California campaign that sought to ban same-sex marriage in the state.
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How can a 501 (c)3 non-profit have so much revenue and stil be non-profit? Read their website manifesto....
Per Wiki:
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls Mozilla trademarks and copyrights.
It owns a taxable subsidiary: the Mozilla Corporation, which employs many Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The subsidiary is 100% owned by the parent, and therefore follows the same non-profit principles. The Mozilla Foundation was founded by the Netscape-affiliated Mozilla Organization, and is funded almost exclusively by Google Inc.
In 2006, the Mozilla Foundation received US$66.8 million in revenues, of which US$61.5 million is attributed to “search royalties” from Google.
The Mozilla Foundation is guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, which lists 10 principles which Mozilla believes “are critical for the Internet to continue to benefit the public good as well as commercial aspects of life.”
The Mozilla Manifesto
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
Mozilla Foundation Pledge
•use the Mozilla assets (intellectual property such as copyrights and trademarks, infrastructure, funds, and reputation) to keep the Internet an open platform
The fact that Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker fell all over herself to effectively condemn him in her blog post demonstrates that Mozilla would prefer to bow to bullying tactics of the left instead of standing up for freedom of speech. It takes courage to take a stand. Mozilla failed.
Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker was trained as a lawyer. She coordinates business and policy issues and sits on both the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors and the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors. In 2005, Time magazine included her in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world and she has been affectionately given the title of “Chief Lizard Wrangler” at the Mozilla Corporation.
From Mitchell Baker’s personal Blog:
On Mozilla’s Support for Marriage Equality
March 29th, 2014
Last week I wrote that Mozilla’s commitment to inclusiveness for our LGBT community, and for all underrepresented groups, will not change. Acting for or on behalf of Mozilla, it is unacceptable to limit opportunity for *anyone* based on the nature of sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This is not only a commitment, it is our identity.
This left unanswered the question of whether equality explicitly includes marital equality. I want to clear that up. Speaking as the Chairwoman, I want to speak clearly on behalf of both the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation: Mozilla supports equality for all, explicitly including LGBT equality and marriage equality.
https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2014/03/29/on-mozillas-support-for-marriage-equality/
What is the alternative? (I run Windows XP)
I would also add that whatever browser you switch to, click on the, “Donate,” link.
I’m doing that with Pale Moon. Excellent browser.
Pale Moon. Almost identical to Firefox.
http://www.palemoon.org/download-ng.shtml
I had it installed, running with all of my bookmarks in less than five minutes. Not a single hiccup.
The menu displayed in your first link is not the content menu that shows up with the current Opera. There is no “show menu bar” item to click.
At the bottom of the website’s homepage it says “powered by Mozilla.” Wouldn’t that make Palemoon a Mozilla program by default?
From the Pale Moon Facebook page:
“Since several people have been asking about this: Pale Moon is in no way associated or affiliated with the Mozilla Corporation.”
https://www.facebook.com/PaleMoonBrowser
Good enough for me, thanks my friend!
What version of PaleMoon are you using? I browsed through the site quickly and looked at what appeared to be several PaleMoon browser downloads?
24.4.2
http://www.palemoon.org/download-ng.shtml
I got the 32 bit version, but I use a 64 bit OS (Windows 7).
I might go to the 64 bit on my next days off after I’ve had a few days to play with this.
Sure it is; says it right on the FB page:
“Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser.”
Sure it is; says it right on the FB page:
“Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser.”
if not MS-IE or Chrome, what is/are alternative(s) besides Firefox???
doesn't
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The context menu on that webpage is not the one I get when I left click on the Opera I downloaded. If you want, I'll do a screenshot and send you an image that shows the context menu I get.
Pale Moon is Firefox based through open source. They aren’t working with Firefox, just using the free software for their browser.
“What are the differences with Firefox?
Firefox is created with maximum compatibility in mind, Pale Moon is created with efficiency and speed in mind. These two approaches are pretty much mutually exclusive, and result in some functions being enabled/disabled in one browser but not the other. For extensive detail on the actual differences under the hood, please check the technical details page.
Later versions of Pale Moon also have a number of changes to the user interface and feature set, to provide an as intuitive, predictable, logical and usable user interface as possible for the best user experience. Most of these changes are user-configurable, and can be changed to what you wish. Additional and removed features are, of course, specific to Pale Moon’s build, meaning you may find some different way of working Pale Moon than what you are used to from other browsers.”
“Will Firefox and Pale Moon work together in the future?
Since Mozilla has obviously chosen to follow a different path at the management level, it doesn’t seem likely that Pale Moon and Firefox will ever see a unification or joining of forces.”
http://www.palemoon.org/faq.shtml#What_are_the_differences_with_Firefox
Opera is a Norwegian company. I don't know if any of their people wrote checks for or against Prop 8, but I'd expect their attitudes towards the issue are similar to those of Google and Microsoft employees. If you're curious about those folks, you might find it interesting to go here. Put in some company names and compare Support vs Oppose.
Or you could just download the whole list via the Download CSV link. But, before you use Excel to look at it, be advised 9 Microsoft employees supported Prop 8, whereas 178 opposed the measure.
I looked at the Pale Moon browser. Sounds interesting. It seems secure and one review said its privacy policy is good. What do we know about the man behind it?
Thanks. Going to download this now.
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