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Let me pay for Firefox

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802 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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lenkite ◴[13 Jul 25 10:07 UTC] No.44549029[source]▶
I would happily pay monthly for Firefox - but not to Mozilla Corporation. Will Pay to developers, development support and operations - not to pad the CEO salary.
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delusional ◴[13 Jul 25 10:35 UTC] No.44549205[source]▶
Yet we happily do that for everything else.

Either software developers have to figure out how to out compete the CEO ghouls (without becoming CEO ghouls themselves), or we just have to accept that the CEO ghouls will take their cut. There's no version of this where you can pay for a service, but also dictate how that money is spent.

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1. DangerousPie ◴[13 Jul 25 11:54 UTC] No.44549664[source]▶
Or in slightly less fatalistic words: In any entity with more than 1-2 employees you need someone to make decisions and be accountable for them. The normal solution is to have a director/CEO for this. You may be able to get away with paying them slightly less than market rates if they are doing it for a good cause, but if you want someone competent you will need to pay them a relatively high salary to compete with other employers.

Expecting Mozilla to somehow function without a CEO, unlike pretty much every other charity in the world, is just not reasonable.