[millietaint]

I dumped Firefox ages ago, when I first heard of Eich's hatred towards the gay and lesbian community.

It is inconceivable that his colleagues at Mozilla did not know about his bigoted beliefs and the financial support he gives to similarly bigoted organisations. Yet they decided he was the best person to run Mozilla, a company that only pays lip service to equal rights - clearly at the top levels of management it is a vile, homophobic, racist organisation.

There is no way I am using a homophobic web browser on any of my desktops, so off it went.

I now happily use Safari for my everyday browsing, knowing that Apple is in the safe hands of Tim Cook, a proud gay man who I admire greatly.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Eich resigned less than two weeks after being made CEO after the outcry from both outside and within Mozilla.

Mozilla isn't homophobic. They put him in that position because they thought he was the best candidate - clearly they were wrong, but I expect this is a Hanlon's razor case.

I was saddened that he was made CEO, but he was only CEO for a very brief period and Mozilla has learned its lesson.

(Speaking as an LGBT person myself)

[tdsamardzhiev]

They chose Eich because he is a great engineer and a great manager. He's evidently also able to separate his job from his political views. I'd like to think that's what really matters, but I'd be wrong :) We are in year 2015 and marketing is what makes-or-breaks one's company. He'd piss off LGBT people - in that and only that sense he was a bad CEO pick. There was this joke running - when Samsung's CEO learned that Tim Cook is gay, he announced he's twice as gay AND waterproof.