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630 points sendilkumarn | 1 comments | 24 Mar 22 16:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.328s | source
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jefftk ◴[24 Mar 22 17:12 UTC] No.30792694[source]▶
Everyone who's been saying "I wish they would just charge money for this", here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is!
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reitanqild ◴[24 Mar 22 17:48 UTC] No.30793192[source]▶
I didn't say that I think but I am tempted to pay anyway.

The big question is:

Does the money go to Firefox or to funny projects and (what I consider) insane exec salaries?

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geodel ◴[24 Mar 22 17:54 UTC] No.30793292[source]▶
What is that insane salary? Seems you have no idea about how much executives are paid at that level in general. Or for Mozilla everyone has to work for free?
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gruturo ◴[24 Mar 22 18:16 UTC] No.30793508[source]▶
OP was clearly specific: EXEC salaries, not engineers and developers. And I'm not sure I would want their current execs there even if they indeed worked for free, not to mention at their absurdly high, grossly underserved salaries while they butcher the company all the way down.

So yeah, find me a way to finance Firefox only, and not the funny projects, and to ensure that not a single cent goes to their execs (neither directly nor through some creative accounting, where they reduce engineer salaries to offset the cashflow from this new stream, and pocket the savings), and you have my 10 bucks a month for the next 8 years (and possibly longer, but let's see what they do in 8 years). I won't move the goalposts and I'll make good on my promise.

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paxys ◴[24 Mar 22 18:21 UTC] No.30793561[source]▶
The person you replied to was specific as well. Execs are paid well industry wide. If you aren't willing to pay market rates then you aren't going to get competent leadership to manage organizations at that scale.
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lesuorac ◴[24 Mar 22 18:30 UTC] No.30793661[source]▶
Ah yes, FireFox's issue is they're paying Execs below market rate.

If they want to get better market share they should start paying more!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Ol...

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Afaik people's main issues with the exec salary is their poor performance. Why pay "market rate" for "below market performance"?

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1. Melatonic ◴[24 Mar 22 19:29 UTC] No.30794321[source]▶
I agree with that but I see 90% of the time people just complaining about the high salaries. As much as those salaries may seem ridiculous the Bay Area is a very competitive place and I do not see many competent execs taking a massive downgrade in compensation just because they may believe in Firefox on principal.

That being said poor performance is for sure something to criticize on - although to be fair we are talking about competing with some of the largest and most entrenched companies on earth - not an easy job.