At 8:33 AM 12/2/95, sameer wrote:
So, for a 15% reduction in salary and 30 days of job search, is it worth it?
30 days? in silicon valley? you *must* be joking. (i suppose the market for good net-folks isn't as big over on the right coast.)
Just a minor clarification. I don't speak for any of the Netscape employees here (nor am I encouraging them to leave...they cay do *more* within Netscape than merely be resigning in some sort of protest). The _salary_ figure is not the key issue. Stock options are. Their stock options were almost certainly priced before the big run-up in price these last few months, and most likely priced at the IPO price or even lower. It is quite likely that these stock options are worth far, far more than salary. True, other companies offer stock options, but their Netscape options are already "in the money" by a wide margin, which is an incredible incentive to stick around. I'm critical of Netscape, like others are, on various issues. But I sure do hope we never turn this criticism into suggestions that Jeff and the other Netscape folks here should quit in protest. That smacks too much of "you're working for the war machine!" stridency. (Next we'll be having people dump buckets of blood over piles of Netscape Navigator at Fry's.) I read the Jim Clark statement that Jeff forwarded. It seemed noncomittal on the actual issue of whether Netscape will build a U.S.-supported GAK (as opposed to offering GAK for the Iraqis or French). I await with interest the clarification of the anti-GAK stance that Jeff alluded to. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."