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		DangerousPie 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let me pay for Firefox PostgreSQL is just a community of volunteers as far as I'm aware, not full-time developers employed by the project. FreeBSD seems to have three paid directors: https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/our-team/ Debian has a leader and also seems to be more a volunteer organisation than a full company: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization

walls 7 months ago [–]

All of the people on Postgres, FreeBSD, and Debian combined make a tiny fraction of what the Mozilla CEO does.

AJMaxwell 7 months ago | [–]

Like what?

a3w 7 months ago | | [–]

I agree that probably the three mentioned projects don't total a 6 million USD budget, which is the CEO salary at Mozilla, but is only close to it.

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