In March 2012, J. Paul Reed mentioned in a blog post that Brendan Eich -- at the time, CTO of Mozilla -- had donated to support California Proposition 8 in 2008: ... in 2008, when the California constitutional amendment involving the issue, Proposition 8, was on the ballot, a number of companies, including Apple, Google, and “numerous biotech companies“ all very publicly stated their official position against the proposition. Mozilla Corporation abdicated taking a position.