"Non-profit" doesn't always mean "charity". It's a tax designation reserved for organizations that are dedicated to public good. It doesn't imply that the people working there aren't top-tier professionals who should command high salaries.
You say that the programmers are paid below market rate -- so are the executives. A CEO of a company with $314M in revenue will rarely make that little in the for-profit world.
There's a lot of room for debate here, but calling the situation disgusting is over-simplifying it.
And as for their tax-exempt status and mission, I'm personally going to benefit a huge amount from just Rust. I think a lot of people are. It's hard to put a dollar amount on innovations like that.
You say that the programmers are paid below market rate -- so are the executives. A CEO of a company with $314M in revenue will rarely make that little in the for-profit world.
There's a lot of room for debate here, but calling the situation disgusting is over-simplifying it.
And as for their tax-exempt status and mission, I'm personally going to benefit a huge amount from just Rust. I think a lot of people are. It's hard to put a dollar amount on innovations like that.