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Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by freshsqueeze on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:34PM (#24200773)
Or at least not funnel millions of donation dollars to Mitchell Baker.
Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by marcinzm on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:41PM (#24200884)
Mitchell Baker is paid by the Mozilla Corporation which in turn is paid by it's search deals. She is paid $0 by the Mozilla Foundation and it's donations. Feel free to checkout the foundation financial statement from 2018 (it's on page 7):

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo...

Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:50PM (#24200994)
And if she were paid less, Mozilla Corporation could spend that money on its mission.
Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by marcinzm on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:54PM (#24201047)
Which in the context of how Mozilla deals with donations is a separate and unrelated discussion.

edit: More broadly, pointing out someone as making a false statement does not mean you agree with the opposite view, simply that you don't like people spreading false statements.

Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:03PM (#24201184)
Sure, you were right to point out that freshsqueeze was incorrect in saying they funnel donations to their overpaid CEO, but the fungibility point is an important one.

A related point on fungibility turned up in earlier discussions: donating directly to Firefox might not count for much if Mozilla balance it out by redirecting the same sum of their general fund away from Firefox. [0][1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24142097

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24131981

Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by coldpie on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:45PM (#24203421)
> overpaid CEO

Overpaid relative to what? Other CEOs of similar sized non-profits? Do you have evidence to support that claim?

Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by iopq on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:38AM (#24250770)
Relative to performance.
Re:Laying the foundation for Rust’s future by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @12:49PM (#24200981)