News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017). Parent comment

Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by falcor84 on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:58PM (#16360961)
But do note that hosting is actually only a very small percentage of where money goes.

In 2017, Wikimedia received ~87M in donations while only ~2M were spent on hosting. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/da/Wikim...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by eximius on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:11PM (#16362195)
What the hell? Why do they need my money if they have 50 Million dollars in cash or cash equivalents? Am I reading that right?

And who the hell are their employees that are getting paid 33 million dollars a year? How many employees are there?

EDIT: Reading a related comment's linked OP-ed, it appears that the Wikimedia Foundation spends a lot of money on non-wikipedia things. That is disturbing to me. I would like to donate to Wikipedia, not Wikimedia. Wikimedia may or may not be worthwile (I'm simply not familiar), but it isn't where I want my money to go.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by twohlix_ on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:31PM (#16362978)
They have ~300 employees. So 33M is not a crazy price to pay. ~110k USD/employee/year. Considering the industry they're in (information and tech) this is totally reasonable.

Otherwise no big deal that it may or may not fit your values to donate to Wikimedia.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by eximius on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:41PM (#16363054)
Not crazy, no, but surprising that they have ~300 employees.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by cerved on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:21AM (#16365136)
Somone I went to college work works there
[ Parent | on HN ]