I think that Wikipedia just doesn't need that much money. If people just let them fail their fundraising goals, the core service will likely continue to get the same budget, but they'll cut their pet projects and parties.
I deeply dislike that these four things happens almost simultaneously :
- firing the people who create their biggest contributions to the free and open web ab also their main source of income
- supporting other efforts all over the place
- begging for money from the "community"
- while brushing me of in tje comments when I ask about progress on a 4 year old bug
You can support Servo Project independently now :
https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo
While it doesn't directly contribute to Firefox itself (for now) I think this is worth supporting
Already do :-)
As for her salary, I won't make a point out of that: she has already negotiated orders of magnitude more than that in income to Mozilla.
i sort of feel like an interesting experiment might be an idea where donating above a certain amount (say 5 dollars) should give someone "a years ownership" and a vote in major policy decisions for that year, sort of like a consumer cooperative
also, in that model, a company couldnt just buy more shares and get more votes (like a stock)... that might be a better model... maybe