Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation

Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by eitland on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:27AM (#26035185)

Same as with me and Mozilla then:

I deeply dislike that these four things happens almost simultaneously :

- firing the people who create their biggest contributions to the free and open web ab also their main source of income

- supporting other efforts all over the place

- begging for money from the "community"

- while brushing me of in tje comments when I ask about progress on a 4 year old bug

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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by gggtt on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:36AM (#26035230)

- and the boss paying herself massive salary while Mozilla is dying

You can support Servo Project independently now :

https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo

While it doesn't directly contribute to Firefox itself (for now) I think this is worth supporting

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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by eitland on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:34AM (#26036096)

> You can support Servo Project independently now :

Already do :-)

As for her salary, I won't make a point out of that: she has already negotiated orders of magnitude more than that in income to Mozilla.

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Re:Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation by andrekandre on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:37PM (#26040864)

i have felt the same many times... i think the "bug in the program" is: donation doesnt give you a vote/ownership.

i sort of feel like an interesting experiment might be an idea where donating above a certain amount (say 5 dollars) should give someone "a years ownership" and a vote in major policy decisions for that year, sort of like a consumer cooperative

also, in that model, a company couldnt just buy more shares and get more votes (like a stock)... that might be a better model... maybe

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