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Wow I didn't know that! Looks like it's $3 million now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker An entire we

Wow I didn't know that! Looks like it's $3 million now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash. That's so disappointing that I don't think I can ever look at Mozilla or Firefox the same way again. As a software engineer, I would not work at an organization with such a huge discrepancy in pay. It almost makes me feel better about a lifetime of failure, so I guess I should be grateful. It's just looking more and more every day like wealth inequality is the great problem of our time, effectively halting progress beyond a certain point.

vkou 4y ago
> An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash. Only if you think you could re-implement Twitter in a weekend.
EMM_386 4y ago
> An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash. It honestly couldn't be. Not one that is on par with Chromium. I can't imagine how much Chrome "costs" if you add up all the engineering man-hours that have gone into that browser. I wouldn't be surprised if it exceeded (exceeds?) $3 million a month at times. Everything from V8 to pretty much full standards compliance (and beyond). Web browseres are an immensely complex beast.