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He was also the guy who invented Javascript


If anything he should have been fired from Mozilla for that reason


Javascript has many faults, but go look into the history of how/why it was created and given that context, it's likely many would do far worse than he did.

https://auth0.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript/




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