Mozilla’s Chief Felled by View on Gay Unions - NYTimes.com
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On Thursday, Brendan Eich, who has helped develop some of the web’s most important technologies, resigned under pressure as chief executive of Mozilla, the maker of the popular Firefox web browser, just two weeks after taking the job.
The reason? In 2008, he donated $1,000 in support of Proposition 8, a California measure that banned same-sex marriage.
