I was considering 100k including everything :) Here in Spain (which is a first-world country :) a good dev would make about 50k or so.. I think the Silicon Va

I was considering 100k including everything :) Here in Spain (which is a first-world country :) a good dev would make about 50k or so.. I think the Silicon Valley area has really skewed expectations of salary (and of course living expenses!). Familiarity with codebase is a problem indeed, but they could start setting up a hub somewhere in Europe. I think part of the problem is that when they incorporated Mozilla they started thinking as a corporation. Multi-million-dollar-paid CEOs, top-heavy with marketing etc. They should have stayed nonprofit IMO.