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Jeremiah Lee

I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.

I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.

If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.

Source: Form 990 stateof.mozilla.org/

Edit: Replaced commentary with direct source

US Tax Form 990 for year 2022 for Mozilla Foundation. Page 7. Compensation of Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, Highest Compensated Employees, and Independent Contractors. Line 1. Column A. Mitchell Baker, Chair, paid only by a related for-profit. Column E. Reported compensation from related organizations. $6,903,089. Column F. Estimated amount of other compensation from the organization. $33,513.
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Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:

@Jeremiah for comparison, the *entire* fundraising drive of the is 375,000 USD.

my.fsf.org/donate

That single Mozilla CEO cops a whopping *18 times* more than the goal funding of the entire FSF for 2024!

Fundraising bar for FSF on Dec 29 2023. Progress: 291239 / 375000 USD
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Peter Motte

@kzimmermann @Jeremiah I use M FF to make sure the others don't get a monopoly. I started using FF years ago because of problems with MS IE. With FF I had less problems. In those days MS had over 90% of the browser market. Using FF by me has nothing to do with some kind of ethical question, it has to do with defending against monopolists. If FF would get a monopoly, I would get out of it.

Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:

@PeterMotte but isn't defending against monopoly some sort of ethical stance, too? :)

Come to think of it, I myself only use firefox because I like it, and I feel it's better. And that's it. I had never thought about the monopolization bit until only 5 years ago or something.

I like the browser - the product. Not the corporation that makes it.

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Peter Motte

@kzimmermann @Jeremiah Defending against a monopoly is making sure you can't become the victim of the monopolist's power. That's not necessarily an ethical stance, it's self defense.

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