Eich was not "thrown out of mozilla". The board knew about his donation and appointed him anyways - the pressure for him to resign came from the community and Mozilla employees.
Hollywood is great at fomenting outrage, but not that much and not in that way :)
I think it's about opportunism. A situation developed and by simply stoking the fires of social media outrage, a major obstacle to adoption of DRM in a popular browser could be eliminated.
Consider the Mozilla position as soon as Brendan had been forced out - coincidence?
>"With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well so our users can continue to access all content they want to enjoy. Read on for some background on how we got here, and details of our implementation." - Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, 14 May 2014
"Mozilla will be adding a way to integrate Adobe Access DRM technology for video and audio into Firefox, via a common specification called Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)." - The Mozilla Blog, 14 May 2014
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-brendan-eich-had-to-g...
I don't really buy that narrative that all of Mozilla really really wanted to accept DRM in the browser, but this one guy is such a pain in the ass about shooting it down that they'll promote him and hope that the outrage machine takes him out, and thus fulfill their evil plan to ??????! Muahahah!
Ahem. Made-for-TV movie plots aside, it fails occam's razor, it fails basic logic, and as mentioned there isn't a single shred of a fact to support it. The actual story is shocking enough without trying to read patterns into it that don't actually exist.