RE: Depends on his spine
Even if he had the spine, if he loses support from the board members, he can’t work like that. He is like a LEPER to them.
Would you want to continue being CEO when everyone you work with hates you?
Better to leave and take your skills with you. The man is a genius who created Javascript ( the most common language for websites) and the Mozilla browser.
Companies will always have need of his skills.
It’s public. He could put up a public fight. Remember the Abortion problem with United way? When they said they wouldn’t support it, a bunch of pro-choicers threatened to withhold giving, so they reversed, and then even MORE pro-life people made the same threat, so they reversed again.
As long as this people can simply threaten with no response from our side, they will win. But he could have gone public with the core problem that we face here and refused to back down. Instead, people like me are no longer using firefox.