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Firefox more or less had a money printing machine. Google gave them about half a billion per year for the last half decade (the last financial statement is for
by patrec 6y ago
Firefox more or less had a money printing machine. Google gave them about half a billion per year for the last half decade (the last financial statement is for 2018). They verifiably burned through billions of dollars over the last decade (the timespan over which they developed rust) and I'd be surprised if servo and rust constituted more than a tiny fraction of that. If anyone has a rough ballpark of yearly spend on rust and servo, I'd love to hear it.
- birdsbirdsbirds 6y agoWhat would have happened if they had invested that money exclusively in non-silicon-valley engineers? $500 million per year can buy you 5,000 talented engineers at $100,000 almost anywhere on this planet.
- steveklabnik 6y agoMozilla did and does employ a lot of people outside of silicon valley.