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Is there anything besides his donation to the Prop 8 effort that led to the controversy and him stepping down?

• weixiyen 13y ago
  No.
• apetresc 13y ago
  Nope.
• Borogove 13y ago
  Yup. http://tim.dreamwidth.org/1845008.html http://tim.dreamwidth.org/1845008.html
• Sidnicious 13y ago
  His (and Mozilla's) handling of the discovery of that donation contributed, AFAIK.
• Jtsummers 13y ago
  He supported an anti-gay marriage candidate with campaign contributions. Essentially, if he'd not had the Prop 8 donation, and only the campaign contributions, no one would have made a connection. His donations would've shown that he supported Republican candidates (since he, outside a response to the Prop 8 donation, made no statements regarding gay marriage that anyone ever linked to) and nothing else.
  • anaphor 13y ago
    How do you know that he donated to these candidates primarily because of their anti-gay rights views anyway? Correlation != causation you know?
    • Jtsummers 13y ago
      We don't, but no correlation would have been made without the Prop 8 donation. That was my point.
      • anaphor 13y ago
        Okay fair enough. If your point is that it can be used to argue for more character flaws or whatever then yes, I agree, it can.
• hackuser 13y ago
  You would have to ask someone at Mozilla, but his handling of the situation got very poor results. They didn't anticipate it, didn't have a plan (AFIACT), and didn't manage it well once the crisis began. It hurt Mozilla's image and created a distraction from Mozilla's mission among employees and the public. Everyone is discussing Eich and politics; few are discussing FirefoxOS and other initiatives. Part of the CEO's job is to manage all that.