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>>stevek+(OP)
It is good news that rust is settling up a independent foundation.

If other shelved or high risk Mozilla projects such as MDN , servo , thunderbird setup similarly it would enable us to directly contribute to the projects instead of the foundation or not at all.

The only project the corporation would never let go is Firefox as it their revenue source , however other projects could perhaps be salvaged

>>manque+y3
I agree it would be best if FF was it's own foundation. I would like to hear some arguments from Mozilla about this. It seems an idea that only has upsides to me. I get the feeling Mozilla is kind-of hijacking the donations people think are going towards Firefox.

>>0xcoff+s4
This is true. Execs at the non-profit foundation have been pocketing millions of dollars. And I cannot really point out what they do. I guess this is common in many non-profits, where people donate, and people at the top siphon it off. There's some corruption at play at the top.

>>freshs+Fm
The problem is not per se that execs at NPOs pocket millions of dollars. After all, that is the market rate - and NPOs have an interest in attracting (and retaining!) high quality staff.

NPOs and NGOs should not have to depend on people willing to exploit themselves for the cause, not on the leadership level and not on the base level (where this is even more common).

The problem is rather that CxO payment in general has gone through the roof over the last 60 years, with the problem becoming ever worse since the fall of the USSR. The ratio of CxO to average worker pay was 20-to-1 in 1965, 58-to-1 in 1989 - and in 2018 it hit 278-to-1!