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surely some of us remember when Brendan Eich was fired from Mozilla for saying controversial things about marriage

• Avshalom 9y ago
  Brendan Eich was pressured to and then did resign for taking action to remove the ability for homosexuals to marry. He was not fired, and he didn't "say" controversial things about marriage. Again: he took action to remove (the time line was: gay people can marry in California, prop 8 removes that, prop 8 is ruled unconstitutional) rights from people.
  • mr_spothawk 9y ago
    interesting... I'll review my history there. thanks. seriously.
  • prepend 9y ago
    This seems nitpicking. He unwillingly left his job due to pressure. It’s like when a company fired you and you respond with “I quit.” The important fact is that he was forced to leave based on his political contributions supporting prop 8. Call it fired or resign or whatever you want, that’s the h important part of the story.
    • Avshalom 9y ago
      More or less important than him taking action to remove legal rights from thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?) of Californians? ETA: also the difference between resigned and fired is significant without a large number of Mozilla Corp. Board members being on record as saying they would have fired him if he hadn't.