@nilesh Almost a decade and nothing changed lol
@nilesh Early-stage company CEOs are paid to make the product better. Late-stage company CEOs are paid to make it worse.
@isaaclyman @nilesh or to just milk out every last dime from the customers. Maybe those two things are symbiotic
@kflanagan @nilesh Yes, they are. Stage 1 is making a good product, priced below cost, so a lot of paying customers get locked in. It’s a loan of value from capital to labor. Stage 2 is clawing that value back, inch by inch, and capturing the interest from customers who keep paying for too long.
It’s such a compelling formula that it even shapes nonprofits and free products (case in point).
@isaaclyman @nilesh I was thinking of the demise of so many companies when Vulture Capitalists come in and enter extraction mode.
@isaaclyman @nilesh And apparently end-stage company CEOs are paid to beg for money. I got a donation request today saying /donate to us because of AI!/ Not amused.
@nilesh Is that a year? That's an absurd amount.
According to Mozilla's financial filings, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker's compensation increased from $5,591,406 in 2021 to $6,903,089 in 2022.
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990-ty21-public-disclosure.pdf
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990-ty22-public-disclosure.pdf
@nilesh The bizarre situation is that the chair is paid for the worst.
@nilesh who the hell pays two point five million dollars for a chair
like, i know office chairs are expensive but god damn that must be a comfortable ass chair
@nilesh Happy I'm not donating anymore. Wtf is that amount?
@nilesh I'll be honest, it's not especially clear to me. I assume the leadership didn't have "tank our market share" as a goal, which makes me wonder what their stated goals actually were.
@nilesh when will a serious fork emerge, how to make that happen
@sirber @RL_Dane @timkrief There is https://ladybird.org/ but it's funded by the usual suspects. I'm afraid this will make as much dent as Brave did.
@timkrief I think this requires some fresh ideas about licensing of software and incentives for those who make it.
@timkrief I primarily blame US govt (for not enforcing anti-trust laws timely and effectively) and users (for not caring about their rights and going after shiny things, despite all the warnings by FSF, EFF etc). No signs of any change on either of these two fronts.
@nilesh A fresh install of firefox is a horrorshow these days. Their default new tab page is nothing but ads, "sponsored" content and political brainrot. It takes 5 minutes of disabling stuff just to make it a usable browser.