Their goal last year was £900k I don’t think they got it but even then that would place executive pay at £123k yearly salary. Doesn’t seem excessive to me. More worried about their employees on average making around £45k.
https://matrix.org/blog/2024/01/2024-roadmap-and-fundraiser/
The essence of the game is about the cones
It also generates waste water that has to be sent to a treatment plant they can’t dump it back into the environment because it’s so concentrated with minerals
And to get seniority you need to stay in office and to stay in office you need money and to get stable money you need corporate money and there’s always something they want in return.
What about just old school cash?
They didn’t before this only affects code changes going from AOSP to Google’s private branch, which is going away. Code from Google’s private branch to AOSP is unaffected. Custom ROMs are all just down stream consumers of AOSP repository anyways.
It’s been mostly this way for a while reason why it takes a little bit before lineageos releases the next version. AOSP is just fully down stream. What will be concerning is when those releases get longer and longer. As another comment said we all just need to figure out linux phones. Been eyeing a pine phone for a while now should probably pull the trigger.
How do you check?
Keeping score for good things generally will lead to those points being abused so people can look good but not actually be good. Suddenly creating ranking for more good. Good vs evil where the lower tier can’t keep up so the actively don’t attempt to be good or even strive the other way.