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Servo wasn't funded by donations, it was funded by Mozilla. That single point of failure was their downfall. I'll take 100 monthly donations over one corporate

• rvz 4y ago
  > Servo wasn't funded by donations, it was funded by Mozilla. All thanks to Google; 'funding' more than 85% of Mozilla, which not only having a direct competitor browser going against what Mozilla is standing for, they continue to fall behind features that Google pushes into the web standards committee at the W3C with Mozilla sitting there doing nothing, but going along with it, but late. Mozilla failed because for 14+ years it was unable to make money for itself other than Google and could not move away from them when they ate their lunch and quickened their decline. > I'll take 100 monthly donations over one corporate sponsor any day. I didn't say 'one corporate sponsor', but let's go with the '100 monthly donations'. How many of those developers are active and full time like awesomekling? Less than 5? With a simple observation on their Patreon / GitHub sponsorship page, paying $4 a month average with 100 people is hardly enough to support a single developer, even with the $1K monthly going to only one developer for building a browser and especially with less than 5 active developers. Realistically, corporate sponsors would make this more sustainable.
  • JBits 4y ago
    I'm not very knowledgable about this, but did failing to a new revenue source really lead to Mozilla's decline? From articles about their CEO's massive salarly, I'm (perhaps naively) thinking mismanagement is a far greater issue.