Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by ummonk on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:51AM (#24565041)

How could have have made the donation anonymously? Were FEC laws different at the time?

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jacquesm on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:06AM (#24565134)

I'm sure Eich is smart enough to figure that one out. He could also have chosen to simply not donate given his position as CEO of a very visible entity.

He must feel pretty strongly about this subject given the fact that he could have recanted but he chose to walk instead.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by goatinaboat on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:53AM (#24566403)

He could also have chosen to simply not donate given his position as CEO of a very visible entity.

He would have needed a time machine or a crystal ball, since the donation was made in 2008 and he became CEO in 2014.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jacquesm on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:49PM (#24569051)

Fair enough, at the time he was 'just' a co-founder of Mozilla and had not yet made the play to become CEO in 2014, but as recently as 2010 he made another such donation, and there is zero evidence that he had changed his mind at the time.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by ummonk on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:59PM (#24571263)

Are you saying he should have broken campaign finance laws by donating under an alias?

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