[boomboomsubban]

The Mozilla Corporation isn't a charity, none of the donated money goes towards their salary. And their revenue is directly tied to a specific deal that the executives negotiated to get over $100 million per year more than their previous deal. They negotiated that despite the years of decreasing users your link showed.

As for the rest, I also dislike standard corporate practices but Mozilla is more or less forced to follow them to compete at all in this world.

[pbhjpbhj]

Do you really think Moz couldn't find someone to competently lead it for less than $2M? For an average USA engineering manager's salary, say?

[boomboomsubban]

Right, let's get an engineering manager to run an international company. They just have to negotiate deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, handle all of the licensing issues, manage a charity, manage hiring for areas including PR and translation, and more assorted tasks. And let's offer them well below market rate for such a position, though we'll still publicly disclose their salary so the entire world can criticize them for everything that goes wrong with the company.

I'm sure they're flooded with great applicants for that gig. And again I doubt the CEO salary is still over $2 million. It would have been negotiated in April 2020 right before the layoffs.