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dman ◴[15 Jan 20 21:11 UTC] No.22058629[source]▶
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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malachismith ◴[15 Jan 20 21:50 UTC] No.22059122[source]▶
To be clear... this charts the comp of ONE person at Mozilla (the Board Chair - and now interim CEO).
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bscphil ◴[15 Jan 20 23:32 UTC] No.22060036[source]▶
I think your point is the most important one. This is not "Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share" as Eich says. This appears to be a misleading graph of how much one guy has been paid. His salary went way up in 2016, unsurprisingly (shortly after Eich was fired), and Firefox has continued its downward slide from when Eich was there.
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1. BrendanEich ◴[16 Jan 20 00:21 UTC] No.22060397[source]▶
Read more carefully:

1. The increase was in 2017, reported per IRS regs in Mozilla Foundation's Form 990 filing (which must list all comp to board members even if they work for the for-profit Mozilla Corporation subsidiary).

2. The "one guy" is Mitchell Baker, and she is chair of both foundation and corporation boards.

But nice try attempting to pin blame on market share slide these last almost six years on me.

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2. bscphil ◴[16 Jan 20 01:09 UTC] No.22060707[source]▶
In your Twitter thread you claimed it was a "chart for top job" at Mozilla. Will you now say that was false, that Baker was not the highest paid employee for the duration of that chart?
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3. BrendanEich ◴[16 Jan 20 01:18 UTC] No.22060757[source]▶
Don't be dense or try "gotcha" games with me: Mitchell is chair of both boards, hirer and firer of CEOs, she has the top job. I'm told Mitchell is now acting CEO too, so: hat trick!

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/

4. BrendanEich ◴[16 Jan 20 01:33 UTC] No.22060840[source]▶
Also you didn't acknowledge your 2016 blunder, or retract your scurrilous insinuation that I'm to blame lo these past almost six years for continued and even accelerating decline, not to mention loss of FirefoxOS to KaiOSTech. Please do better, or save it.
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5. bscphil ◴[16 Jan 20 05:25 UTC] No.22061903{3}[source]▶
> your scurrilous insinuation that I'm to blame lo these past almost six years

Ooh, "scurrilous"! I'm struck where I stand! If only I had actually said you were to blame for the last 5-6 years, you might have something. I said Mozilla continued its downward slide from when you were there, not that you were to blame for that.

> even accelerating decline

Your chart doesn't show an accelerating decline in the last six years, so you don't have much to go on there either.

In fairness to you, you did say "top job", and I quoted you as saying "chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive", which is what dman said at the top of the thread. Baker was not the highest paid executive for the duration of the chart, but I shouldn't have claimed you said that. So I do apologize for that. I also apologize for misgendering Baker.