2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood.
3. I am pretty sure many people building all this amazing tech can definitely get paid better in other places
4. These days when someone like Facebook fails to be bold, I would prefer to support someone like Mozilla who walks the talk.
No one is talking about the developers. Mitchell Baker received $2,458,350 in 2018. That's up from $1,035,114 in 2014.
Have you seen the incredible results which justified this tremendous raise? Personally, I haven't.
His raise is 100% justified...unless your implying that any software dev pulling in 150k would be able to negotiate a deal like that.
The 2017 deal was a 8% increase in revenue. That's a significant slow down of the increase trajectory of these deals. Meanwhile every other metrics were going down, most notably market share.
2017 also saw the rebranding and the Pocket deal go through. I still don't think it was worth a 150% increase.