This seems nitpicking. He unwillingly left his job due to pressure. It’s like when a company fired you and you respond with “I quit.”

The important fact is that he was forced to leave based on his political contributions supporting prop 8. Call it fired or resign or whatever you want, that’s the h important part of the story.

More or less important than him taking action to remove legal rights from thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?) of Californians?

ETA: also the difference between resigned and fired is significant without a large number of Mozilla Corp. Board members being on record as saying they would have fired him if he hadn't.

interesting... I'll review my history there.

thanks. seriously.