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by Mailtemi 459 days ago
Mozilla diversifies by increasing the CEO's salary for nothing.

Wiki: In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, Baker's salary was more than $3 million. In 2021, her salary rose again to more than $5 million, and again to nearly $7 million in 2022.

The new CEO brings computing for AI money bleed that almost no one wants.
3 comments
culi 459 days ago
We know this because of Mozilla's commitment to transparency. These figures come from their annual reports

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2023/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2022/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2021/

etc

I'm not defending it at all, but I think it's worth pointing out this pay rate is below the rate most CEOs of tech companies of this size are making. I don't really know what the solution here is but I imagine any CEO they replace her with would also seek a high salary. I'd love for them to become a worker-owned cooperative like Igalia but I really don't see that happening any time soon

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bad_user 459 days ago
I don't agree with Mozilla paying that huge CEO salary, but…

Do you know Firefox's handy new offline translation feature? That's AI a well. And Firefox is the only browser that doesn't leak your web page when translating it.

There are plenty of other uses for AI, such as describing images without alt-text for the blind, or summarization. I, for one, want AI in my browser, you can't really say that “nobody wants it”, when many people clearly do.

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Mailtemi 459 days ago
Really? Fire the Rust Servo team and double the CEO's salary in the same year? Almost the same money.
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bad_user 459 days ago
I said I don't agree with them wasting that much money on the CEO, maybe I wasn't clear (perhaps it's due to English not being my first language).
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ziddoap 459 days ago
You were clear. Mailtemi is just talking past the point of your comment, rather than engage with it.
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glenstein 459 days ago
What's the news on them getting into AI?
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ac29 459 days ago
Firefox translate uses an on device language model to do webpage translations.

There's also an experimental chatbot integration in Firefox. It seems to be opt in at least for now.

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