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That's been broadly discussed elsewhere in this thread already. And no, he wasn't fired.


He was asked to resign by Mitchell Baker at which point he presented a resignation letter. That is an involuntary termination, which for everybody outside the "C" suite is being fired.


I wasn't in the room so I'll take Brendan Eich's word for it.


He was cancelled.




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