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Re:Servo’s new home by unethical_ban on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:01PM (#25126112)
Wow, that is a hugely loaded statement. Even if it is 100% true, the level of derision and bias should make any person not familiar with the situation question everything you say.

If you're going to be that biased, at least back it up. And by back it up, I mean at LEAST throwing in some statements of fact, if not URLs.

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Re:Servo’s new home by coldpie on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:10PM (#25126258)
Every thread tangentially related to Mozilla has a bunch of people who don't understand how non-profits work come in and complain about executive compensation.
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Re:Servo’s new home by vorpalhex on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:53PM (#25126976)
I'd say >$2.4M in exec comp[1] isn't just making up for a lack of stock options.

[1] - https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-cuts-70-staff-as-part-of-p...

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Re:Servo’s new home by coldpie on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:09PM (#25127271)
The absolute number doesn't matter. Non-profits participate in the same labor market as for-profit companies. You have to compare it to executive salaries for other similarly sized companies in their market segment to make the argument that she is overpaid. Otherwise you're just arguing against income inequality, which is not a problem exclusive to Mozilla, and crippling Mozilla's ability to participate in that labor market will not fix it.
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Re:Servo’s new home by shi314 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:42PM (#25128639)
Does Mozilla compete with for profit companies for C suite market? Which technology intensive company hire a CEO who is lawyer by profession and hasn't had any redeeming resume for management and technology. If you look at firefox's market share, the only growth it had was when she was not a CEO. Seriously, Mozilla is not competing with for profit companies in C suite labor market.
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Re:Servo’s new home by bildung on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:58AM (#25136747)
Does Mozilla compete with for profit companies for C suite market?

Yes, Baker is CEO of the for profit corporation.

Which technology intensive company hire a CEO who is lawyer by profession and hasn't had any redeeming resume for management and technology.

Are you aware that she cofounded the project in the 90s? Mozilla (corporation) didn't just decide to hire a lawyer out of the blue in 2018.

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Re:Servo’s new home by WhyNotHugo on Sunday November 22, 2020 @04:58PM (#25181497)
> You have to compare it to executive salaries for other similarly sized companies in their market segment to make the argument that she is overpaid.

No, a non-profit does not need to attract someone who only cares about making money.

Hiring someone willing to work for less would ultimately be better for a non-profit, since it's an indicator that they care about the mission, and not purely about the money.

If you hire someone who wants over 2M, you hire someone who cares about your money, not your ideals, and will push the organisation in that direction.

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Re:Servo’s new home by pqoek on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:32PM (#25129406)
> The pay for Mozilla Chair and longtime leader Mitchell Baker in 2018, the most recent year for which the organization released the information, surpassed $2.4 million.
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