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The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

  • zephyrvs@lemmy.ml
    271·
    1 year ago

    Uhm, aren’t all questions raised in that text completely on point?

    I’m as far left as it gets but none of these expenses make any sense to me. The CEO pay is bonkers. Wtf are they doing? Why does the CEO deserve to basically collect the entirety of donations for… basically just extending a cash cow deal with Google?

    I don’t give a damn if the author is on the right but so far this looks sus as fuck.

    Firefox being as good and fast as it is probably more an accomplishment of individual teams inspite of company leadership and that should be called out.

    Can’t sell yourself as the underdog if you’re got almost half a billion in assets.

      • ThankYouVeryMuch@kbin.social
        16·
        1 year ago

        This ‘related organization’ is Mozilla Corp, for-profit owned by the Mozilla Foundation that has Baker as its CEO as well.

        I’m a lifelong Mozilla user, but these things stink a bit. I find even more concerning the dependency from google

        • AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          I am not a fan of high compensation overall on the C-Level. What I’m worried about most with these types of companies is being destroyed from within. That’s generally heralded by bringing in high cost outside consultancy firms.

          I don’t see that yet on their balance sheet. No idea what Mozilla Corp. does, but the Mozilla Foundation is still doing things I am aligned with.

          But as with all things, constant vigilence is key. More and more it feels like there’s barely anywhere left to invest time or money in. Fediverse is truly a ray of sunshine at the moment. But I wonder how long that’ll last until it’s been subverted by commercial interests.

          • ThankYouVeryMuch@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            A CEO that brings lots of money and consistently gets to lower the share of your flagship browser seems like a good candidate to destroyed from within. How can Mozilla stay independent when most of their money comes from these ‘royalties’ and most of it is from Google? We’re talking hundreds of millions agains 7 mil in donations that barely pay for the CEO. How are they gonna push back against this webDRM shit google is trying to pull (or any other thing)?

            I feel the same as you, I’ve been using Mozilla/Firefox since forever, because I felt they were doing things I’m aligned with. But I don’t know anymore. I don’t know if they are doing it or they have started to become just muppet opposition.

            Enshittification spreads fast, once it takes roots its to late. But it sure seems like, lately, it’s an all out attack on any freedom left on the internet

            • AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social
              3·
              1 year ago

              If Google is successful with their garbage webDRM, I feel we might actually get a sort of reset back to the early 2000s internet for those that care to get out of that corporate hell hole the “internet” has become.

              And thanks to the Fediverse we might not even need something like Google ever again. But then they’ll start attacking the infrastructure itself. Make it prohibitively expensive to run such instances, etc. Attack them with content that gets instances banned, etc.

              No matter where one looks, it feels it’s an all out war on any minor comfort or freedom left to the non-ultra-rich-ultra-connected.

              So. As for Firefox. What’s a good alternative? I’m very fond of the container thing they got going, but everything else can be replaced, I believe.

      • zephyrvs@lemmy.ml
        9·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for sharing your knowledge and providing new data points instead of just coming up with reasons to assume my questions had malintent. Appreciated!