rarebit

Why does rarebit pulling their app represent a lack if respect for personal beliefs?

Brendan can have his personal opinion, and rarebit can decide that they don't want to do business with the company whose CEO has that opinion.

But I still think the reaction to rarebit pulling their app was problematic.

If from here Mozilla appeared to be championing gay rights and parity more than ever before, then I think team rarebit would revise their position.

People who are at the intersection (rarebit) threaten this world view, and the best he can do is handle them case by case[2] while trying very hard not to draw more general conclusions.

Now I'm not saying that people shouldn't act on their strong convictions, I'm merely saying that those in charge of team rarebit have decided to publicly incite ill will towards a person who made a donation on public record 6 years ago.

They initially shrugged off rarebit's reaction with the standard "we should all respect personal opinions" (except for the personal opinions of people affected by Eich's actions, of course).

We are personally affected by his actions." should make people very skittish about using Team Rarebit's code or services in production, specially if they ever make something that your app infrastructure is dependent on (like payment systems or APIs).

Even before the whole vegan movement took off, the terms have been overloaded, for example mince pies, head cheese, milk of magnesia, Welsh rabbit/rarebit, peanut butter, portobello steak, beefsteak tomato, rice burgers, oil-based "butter"...

Team Rarebit, two developers who are a gay couple, have made several blog posts about how support for Prop 8 affected them from an immigration perspective, which of course had both personal and professional consequences.