<story><title>Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla&apos;s top exec pay going up</title><url>http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&amp;gt; And they can&amp;#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&amp;#x27;d be unfair on their families.&lt;p&gt;This kind of bullshit infuriates me to no end.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a quote from the CEO saying that they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid.&lt;p&gt;And they can&amp;#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&amp;#x27;d be unfair on their families.&lt;p&gt;Firefox has a problem. It gets most of its revenue from Google. 
They need a different revenue stream but their ideas haven&amp;#x27;t worked.&lt;p&gt;Their executives are clearly failures. 
But with such high pay, they&amp;#x27;re cashing out. Buying themselves mansions etc.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that pretty much admitting that they&amp;#x27;re on a sinking ship?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mihaaly</author><text>I can cite much much more people there if they want to discuss fairness, they better forget and act this line of argument never existed!&lt;p&gt;I believe they should justify the value they create in this high paid positions compared to all other people making and disseminating the product. There is no justification for this level.&lt;p&gt;There are lots and lots of families there living on a less fair level of salary but produce much more value (and no damages).</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla&apos;s top exec pay going up</title><url>http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enriquto</author><text>&amp;gt; And they can&amp;#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&amp;#x27;d be unfair on their families.&lt;p&gt;This kind of bullshit infuriates me to no end.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a quote from the CEO saying that they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid.&lt;p&gt;And they can&amp;#x27;t reduce their salary now because it&amp;#x27;d be unfair on their families.&lt;p&gt;Firefox has a problem. It gets most of its revenue from Google. 
They need a different revenue stream but their ideas haven&amp;#x27;t worked.&lt;p&gt;Their executives are clearly failures. 
But with such high pay, they&amp;#x27;re cashing out. Buying themselves mansions etc.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that pretty much admitting that they&amp;#x27;re on a sinking ship?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martin_a</author><text>How can you even spend around 2.5 million A YEAR (okay, before taxes, whatever) if you&amp;#x27;re not BURNING the cash?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t get it.</text></comment>