Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director | The Mozilla Blog
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Coz money?
Probably, like most jobs. In the most recently available tax filings the President and Executive Director (he was both) was making something like $360k.
Honestly that sounds like the correct salary for being in charge of a big foundation
I think a lot of people assume it is like the CEO of the Corporation, who is making a California tech CEO salary.
I don't get it, do you believe that AI is reversible so we should only big corps use it cause it is inherently bad?
The one thing Mozilla needs to focus on for internet freedom and independence is the one thing they never never never ever will talk about... The browser
That 500m in annual google money is too precious to actually innovate the browser with.
At this point Mozilla is just a political arm of Google.
AI will solve walled gardens and decentralize the internet? Wishful thinking.
This is about the Mozilla Foundation, not the Mozilla Corporation.
The distinction matters. The way they are organized, they can’t really overlap functions without jeopardizing the non-profit status of the Foundation. The Corporation is a for-profit company, it gets money from Google and it makes the browser.
What? I'd expect the nonprofit to make the browser and get donations from corporations
The foundation owns the corporation so leadership decisions can flow through. Leadership matters, and what the new executive director says is the focus is a indicator.
Leadership decisions do not “flow through”, they are similar to the board in a traditional corporation. They legally cannot have operational decision making or be involved in the same work, that is a foundational aspect of “non-profit owning a for-profit”. It could just as easily be a for-profit soap company.
The focus of the Foundation is drastically different than Firefox. That’s one of the reasons Firefox was spun off so it could thrive in an environment that was built around it.
If they can have no control of the underlying corporation why bother owning it? Why not just put it on the free market then?
Obviously owning it does give some level of control, boards of directors can have opinions, the principal investors can set directives
Because it’s for fundraising, and they maintain very generic vibe setting, and they know Elon Musk won’t buy it.
The Foundation literally cannot focus on the browser, so what’s your continuing problem here?
That the Mozilla organization as a whole, including the foundation, has lost track of what is actually good for a free and open internet. And it makes me sad
What is good is not letting unethical corporations and only unethical corporations develop cutting edge technologies because me Firefox user and me not like anything ever change.
Cat’s out of the bag, nothing ever goes back the way it was, you just get to live in the new world.
OMG.
Ctrl+Ffor Firefox with no results in the article… but there’s a link to a Pikachu image from Google image search results.We don't fucking care about your new boss Mozilla