Is there anything short of resignation that Eich could have said or done that would have satisfied people participating in the protests against his appointment?

Is there anything short of resignation that Eich could have said or done that would have satisfied people participating in the protests against his appointment? If not, then the lessons learned here (either by Eich or by the people who called for his removal) are bad ones. Eich was in a tough spot here. He holds beliefs (and contributed to causes in favour of those beliefs) that may be in opposition to Mozilla’s HR policies. It is absolutely important to know that he would ensure that those policies would be enforced fairly. I’m not sure there are any good resolutions to this sort of problem.