[mschuster91]

> - Mozilla should not let a few extremely rich executives loot the business.

The problem is, when searching for high-level executives, you're not competing against other NGOs, you're competing with the wide free market - and salaries there are, frankly, out of control and have been so for decades [1]. Either Mozilla Foundation plays the dirty game just like everyone else does, or they go out of business.

It's the system that's broken at a fundamental level, not individual actors.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2023/

[tetromino_]

One might ask why Mozilla needs to search for a high-level executive in the first place. Most open source projects, even very large ones, function reasonably well without a hired executive - so what makes Mozilla different such that it requires this luxury good?

[mschuster91]

> Most open source projects, even very large ones, function reasonably well without a hired executive - so what makes Mozilla different such that it requires this luxury good?

For a certain definition of "reasonably well", that is.

And often enough, big money is at play, it's just hidden from the public eye - just look how much money IBM, RedHat, Google, Meta and other very large players spend on salaries for kernel and other OSS developers - and their managers in turn are paid the usual ridiculous executive salaries. That just doesn't show up on any public finance report.

[tiahura]

Thank God for Linus.

[stalfosknight]

Maybe they should ditch the corposuits and let the engineers run the company à la Valve.

[lovich]

The name for the effect you are describing is Baumol’s cost disease

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

[danaris]

> or they go out of business.

How does "failing to attract an executive whose primary differentiating characteristic is demanding exorbitant amounts of money" lead to them going out of business?

[Tostino]

Widen the hiring pool then. I'm sure there are plenty of competent people who do care deeply to keep an alternative browser in the market.