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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We're gonna end up with a Blink monopoly, aren't we?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My hope is that Mozilla stops working on Firefox and the Linux Foundation creates a new Firefox fork and finances the project. It would be the official Linux browser.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I do not see why you think the Linux Foundation could stomp 500+ devs out of the ground and do a better job. That's three times the size of the current Linux Foundation. Nevermind that the Linux Foundation is purely non-profit. Paying a living wage to that many devs is pretty much just not going to be possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Linux foundation is still trying to take Servo out of the ground

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are quite successful with Servo. Progress is obviously slow but it always had been. What matters is that progress is happening

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you are trying to compete with another application, speed matters a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Servo isn't competing at all. Servo is an experiment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing stopping them from forking it now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

There is no need to at the moment, that's stopping them. Like with Redis, there was a need to fork it. My hope is that the Linux Foundation does not see any other way than doing it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Either you die young or you live long enough to turn into the Blink engine.