I was glad to read this, but then today I noticed a new comment by Eich clarifying that no one tried to convince him to stay as CEO.
http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07...
Perhaps your understanding is a little off. Maybe it's a prudent position to go back to not really knowing what happened between Eich and the board.
Anyway, I'm done being angry at Mozilla. You guys are doing an important thing. Calls for a boycott are counterproductive and will only hurt us all. What's done is done.
I just can't quite find it in my heart to support you anymore.
For what it's worth, https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat... has been updated with less weaselly language. So at this point my best guess on what happened is that it was Brendan that first brought up resigning, but the board was quite happy that he did so...
Re:Brendan Eich
by BrendanEich on Monday April 14, 2014 @11:55PM
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That seems likely.
I appreciate your continued efforts to bring clarity to the issue.
There's a difference between "want him to resign" and "agree with his decision to resign once he makes it". My understanding is that Brendan had to actually get pretty angry with the board to get them to agree, fwiw.