The articles I’ve seen say that it was for the past 10 years of work, some amount of which was unpaid
techcrunch.com/…/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-s…
With the revamp, Mastodon has the potential to expand its business, product, and mission, without being dependent on a single person’s leadership. It will also give Rochko a break, as he’s been singularly focused on Mastodon for the past 10 years.
Going forward, Rochko will continue contributing to Mastodon as an adviser. He has also been compensated with a one-time payment of €1 million, given that he took less than a fair market salary over the years while building Mastodon.
I don’t have insight into the decision making process that went into deciding on that amount, maybe it’s less than what he should have been compensated for, maybe it’s more. But it sounds like they reached that decision amicably
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
For this guy to be paid for all his previous work for which he was supposedly very much underpaid just like almost every open source dev out there.
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
what was his salary in the 10 years each?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
Idk man and i dont care. He probably couldve chosen to be a greedy asshole and sell to some big tech company for 100M but instead he took enough to buy a house and live in peace.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
Good on you for replying like that. Behavior like this drives people out of open source, people are too easily outraged whenever money is mentioned.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 14 hours ago
The graceful Tom from MySpace exit.
nyankas@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
In 2023, it was €5.000/month (source).
That‘s about as much as a full stack software developer makes in Germany working a 40h week (source).
Seeing that he was a CEO, definitely worked more than 40 hours per week and was the driving force behind Mastodon, I, as someone who supports them financially, am totally okay with him getting a big payout now.