I didn't say Mozilla fired Eich. The reality is, per your own source, is that Eich was going to be CEO, and he was no longer given that role, so he left. Given

I didn't say Mozilla fired Eich. The reality is, per your own source, is that Eich was going to be CEO, and he was no longer given that role, so he left. Given that he was already CTO before this debacle, the board trying to get him to stay in another C-suite role is effectively a demotion. You also don't acknowledge that half of Mozilla's board resigned immediately after his appointment to CEO and one board member cited his appointment as explicitly being the reason. No one is going to stay under those circumstances. So his choices were basically stay at Mozilla, whose very own employees were protesting his appointment, or leave. I'm going to stick with "forced out." I find it amusing that Mozilla in your source insists that he wasn't forced out, when their own recounting of the events only leads one to believe he resigned to due the intense organized protests surrounding his appointment. Ultimately you'd have to ask Eich privately to know for sure. All I'll say is that when someone is demoted, they're going to leave. Whether that's CEO or Senior Software Engineer. I don't even agree with Eich's own (former) positions on same-sex marriage, but let's call it what it is, yes? Now, whether or not his forcing out was good, or just, is another matter, and discussion entirely.