People and the things they make are quite different entities. The opinions of the creators of a web browser are unimportant if that web browser has no opinions

People and the things they make are quite different entities. The opinions of the creators of a web browser are unimportant if that web browser has no opinions on gay marriage. This is an interesting debate (should you boycott a thing, because you disagree with the person who made it?), but it is asking the wrong question. It reminds me of Lenin's feelings about Beethoven - how could a bourgeois create such wonderful music! Instead of questioning the framework of thinking which led him there, he claimed to avoid listening to the music in case it made him bourgeois. Many human creations which we value as a culture were by outspoken and sometimes abusive people - Gill Sans, Francis Bacon, Picasso, Lewis Carroll, Wagner, Caravaggio etc. I think their work should stand alone, separate from any other views they might have had, and be judged on its own merits and the messages it contains, not on other messages their authors promulgated or actions they took.