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I work at Mozilla and, really, it looks very much like an attack.

Several calls to boycotts, several petitions asking for the resignation of our CEO, demonstrations, insults, death threats, ...

Note that the situation is pretty symmetric: we now get from the conservatives what we got from the liberals two weeks ago.

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I'm sure that can't feel good. Remember that you have over 500 million users and many more who know you. I suspect if you divide the number of supporters of boycotts, petitions, etc. by 500,000,000, you will get a very tiny number.

Thanks for the support :)

Also, Firefox is still number one here in Germany, where this issue was a non-story. Over here and in many other places, person and office are considered independent unless the personal opinions are directly pertinent to the office in question.

After all, if we (average Germans) applied our own present-day human rights views in the same way, we'd be boycotting organizations with CEOs that are homophobes, death penalty proponents, religious extremists, pro-lifers and so forth.

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