He was a victim of the free market in which people can choose to express their opinions by boycotts, free speech and the like. “Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it,” Baker wrote. There’s no freedom of speech if you can’t be employed while holding your opinion. Only a small percentage of emailers are as disgusted as I am: 
 
 This really frightens me. *Correction, April 3, 2014: This post originally misstated that Eich was the CEO of Mozilla and that Mozilla was a nonprofit. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. Eich may well be wrong – very wrong, in fact – but he has a right to his opinion, and the fact that the Internet threw a hissy fit certainly doesn’t justify firing him. As far as I can tell, however, it did not lead to broad-based calls for Eich to resign from his post at Mozilla, where he had been Chief Technical Officer since 2005. I say “personal views” rather than “political views,” because that distinction is the key to understanding why Eich had to go.
– Andrew Sullivan is often an ally to America's left, but he's definitely not cheering over the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich over his opposition to gay marriage. "This is McCarthyism applied by civil actors. This is the definition of intolerance," The Dish maestro writes in one of several posts decrying the ouster. "It’s staggering to me that a minority long persecuted for holding unpopular views can now turn around and persecute others for the exact same reason," he writes. These people are trumpeting the "illiberal" view that morality trumps freedom, and dissenters must be ostracized. But Will Oremus at Slate has a much different take. Yes, he says, your political beliefs shouldn't affect your employment. "But this is different. Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes," he argues. "It's more akin to opposing interracial marriage." That makes Eich unfit to be CEO in a tech industry competing hard for employees. "If you know your boss rated you undeserving of the same rights as everyone else based solely on your sexual orientation, would you feel good about going to work?"