Yagan's personal views don't really matter. In fact, Eich's views don't matter either because in politics, perception is reality. Yagan contributed to the grow

Yagan's personal views don't really matter. In fact, Eich's views don't matter either because in politics, perception is reality. Yagan contributed to the growing perception that holding anti-gay opinions is socially unacceptable, something that the gay rights movement has been trying to achieve for decades. Regardless of his personal views, past actions or other motives, it helped. Eich could have easily saved himself. The key problem was the perception of an anti-gay CEO of Mozilla, and this could have been fixed in the same way that all public figures handle shifting public sentiment: with a statement about how his views have "evolved", he realizes now how wrong he was, apologizing for the hurt he caused and so on. Clearly he chose not to do that.