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> He was being denied access to a particular leadership position.

He wasn't denied access to the position, he had it. Others made it clear they were not interested in being lead by him. A decision had to be made to either let those people leave or he had to choose to leave.



I did not see a single post from someone who would be led by Brendan saying they did not want to be lead by him. In fact, the opposite.

Please do look up the difference between the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation. He was picked as CEO of the _Corporation_ but the Mozilla employees who called for his resignation were employees of the _Foundation_, and hence wouldn't be led by him at all. The Corporation employees who spoke out in public were saying things like https://twitter.com/Jason_Duell/status/449265719474008064 and http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZFsNqrZ... (since deleted, apparently) and http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of...

It's hard to tell from the outside, of course, since everyone involved just claimed to be working from "Mozilla", so it's easy to make the mistake you made.




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