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The Mozilla controversy that played out over the past two weeks bursts with ironies. And this one is perhaps the most prominent: The free speech that Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich spent his life's work defending and enabling — and an open-Web revolution Eich helped lead — drove his unseating. It raises questions about how a company leader's personal convictions should be judged.

After a public, pitched debate over whether Eich was fit to lead given his 2008 donation to California's Proposition 8, which defined marriage as only between a man and a woman, Eich decided for himself that he wasn't. He resigned Thursday despite many Mozillians who came to his defense, in response to other Mozillians who called for his ouster.

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