Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours agoFor 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.