[url=http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich-resigns-as-ceo-and-also-from-foundation-board/]Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California’s anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board of the nonprofit foundation which wholly owns it.[/url] Eich also cofounded Mozilla and created the JavaScript programming language. [quote]In several interviews this week, Eich had insisted that he would not step down from the job he was only recently appointed to, due to the intense backlash over a $1,000 donation he made in 2008 in support of the ballot measure to ban gay marriage. “So I don’t want to talk about my personal beliefs because I kept them out of Mozilla all these 15 years we’ve been going,” he said to the Guardian, for example, yesterday. “I don’t believe they’re relevant.”[/quote] Since I can't find a less melodramatic way to put it, do you think it should have come to this? And should we, as consumers and investors, put aside someone's personal beliefs when supporting their products, or should we be concerned that we are indirectly supporting those people as well? Is there room in today's economy for us to consider the personal beliefs of CEO's and other leaders, or that simply not feasible?