[someotherperson]

Just before you do, have a read through who Mozilla is in 2021[0]

> "Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018, [...] Payments to Baker have more than doubled in the last five years."

> "Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people."

[0] https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

[seoaeu]

I never understood why people were so upset at Mozilla's CEO earning a couple million per year in salary. Seems like a rather reasonable rate for running a medium size company that doesn't give out stock options/RCUs

[lowercased]

I suspect it's at least partially the 'giving a raise/increase while also firing people at the same time' optics which doesn't sit well with folks.

It doesn't actually strike me as 'reasonable rate' for a company which is losing market share with their main products, has a history of multiple failed product/service launches, and is having to fire people to cut costs. I (and many others) could get the same results for a mere $700k/year.

[quesera]

It's because Mozilla is visibly, painfully, repeatedly, and incomprehensibly, grossly mismanaged.

They have an enormous budget, but are funded from basically a single source, and the future of that funding is not guaranteed.

They have dramatically dwindling market share. This is critical because their voice in the future of the web could easily be drowned out by the interests of Google-Apple-Microsoft.

Their non-browser projects are inconsistently conceived, and unreliably maintained.

These situations have been created and compounded under the direction of their CEO.

They have no roadmap to fix these issues, any of which could be fatal.

Mozilla is our best hope for the future of the free web, and their gross mismanagement makes me very fearful.

Every single year, they are funded well enough to remake the organization, and every single year they do not.

I say this as a loyal Netscape/Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox user since always.

I say this with a continued belief that Brendan Eich created a situation (or a situation was created around Brendan Eich, if you prefer) where he could not have effectively led Mozilla.

And I say this with awareness that 99% of us would probably fail to lead Mozilla (it is a delicate balancing act) -- but that only the current management has dipositively done so.

If there was any accountability to users or shareholders, the Mozilla executive team would have been replaced years ago. It is difficult to watch this astonishing waste of resources, and massive dereliction of duty to the public.