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I think it's gross to pay the CEO a high salary if you're asking people for donations, but Mozilla isn't; they're self-funded. So if they want to blow all that money on their CEO, I guess it's their call.

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sure as hell keeps me from funding them though. We don't need more overpaid CEOs.

Companies need good CEOs to lead them in a good direction, and good CEOs want money.

I'm sure people would care far less about ceo pay if they felt Firefox was headed in a good direction

Yet somehow it seems like Mozilla is going in a worse direction than ever.

You're not wrong, but the contention here is that bad CEOs also want money and by all metrics, the Mozilla ship is going in the wrong direction.

https://donate.mozilla.org/

They are asking for donations.

The foundation is, but I think the high CEO pay is paid for from the corporation's budget, which is self-funded.

The current CEO used to be head of the foundation and board, so she was receiving $1M+ a year already, paid with those donations.

Nope, see page 52 https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo...

It says "paid only by related for-profit".

Oh right, thanks!

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