What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
To everyone complaining about the $250K (see edit, it's actually 200K) per person in salary (which seems to be everyone at the moment), a few things to keep in mind:1) That includes benefits2) They are in Silicon Valley and have to compete with everyone else in Silicon Valley3) Given what they have accomplished with such a small team, these are probably high caliber people.4) In SV there is a good 25% premium you pay for engineers with security expertise.As someone who runs a business and has to hire talent, I can say that I'd consider myself lucky to get such a team for such a great price.Edit:  A bunch of people are saying "why not remote".  I think they are in fact mostly remote, but they still have to compete with SV wages because really good people command those wages whether they are here or not.Edit2:  As has been pointed out multiple times, the blog post was not clear, and it is actually 200K per person, all in.