Nominet announces that four directors have been removed

Re:Nominet announces that four directors have been removed by boomboomsubban on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:43PM (#26550416)

>Mozilla makes their money from Google. Mozilla is "supposed" to use that money to continue its mission, ("We're building a better internet, ensurig the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all") but when Mitchell Baker takes home $2.4m in salary, there's nobody with skin in the game to say "no, that money should go back to Mozilla so we can use it to build a better internet."

That $2.4 million dollar salary is from 2018, a year when Mozilla made most of it's money from Yahoo. This is relevant as that Yahoo deal saw Mozilla making between 100-250 million dollars more a year than their deals with Google. That is what resulted in the board increasing their pay, and after the following Google deal was far lower many of their executives were forced out.

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Re:Nominet announces that four directors have been removed by dfabulich on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:39AM (#26551188)

I'm not saying that Baker was or wasn't overpaid, but people certainly did complain about it. "How can you ask me to donate money when Baker's making six figures?" It came up constantly during Mozilla's layoffs last year.

For better or worse, it just "looks bad" when a non-profit executive makes a seven figure salary. And when people ask "could we set up an ombuds/ethics committee/advisory board to prevent Mozilla from doing this?" The answer is the same: no, that wouldn't really work.

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Re:Nominet announces that four directors have been removed by boomboomsubban on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:03AM (#26551597)

>"How can you ask me to donate money when Baker's making six figures?" It came up constantly during Mozilla's layoffs last year.

The donations are for the foundation, the corporation makes a lot of money off their search engine deal. People often bring these things up as they sound bad, so if you're going to to repeat it add the necessary context and avoid the simple misunderstandings.

>could we set up an ombuds/ethics committee/advisory board to prevent Mozilla from doing this

They have a board that picks the corporation's CEO and sets their salary. I doubt you want the monetary sources to control this board, as that would give Google almost total control.

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