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They haven't abandoned it but that title makes it sound like they have.
by int0x29 2y ago
They haven't abandoned it but that title makes it sound like they have.
- benatkin 2y agoI think that's intended. This indicates that there's a possibility it's default dead. > Servo is a huge project. To keep it alive and making progress, we need continuous funding on a bigger scale than crowdfunding can generally accomplish. If you’re interested in contributing to the project or sponsoring the development of specific functionality, please contact us at join@servo.org or igalia.com/contact. > Let’s hope we can walk this path together and keep working on Servo for many years ahead. https://paulgraham.com/aord.html https://paulgraham.com/aord.html
- rswail 2y agoExcept that paulg's essay was about startups, not about an OSS project. Servo has no "customers" as such. It has potential future project users and there may be a support/development economic return for those users to fund further work. It's very similar to Rust the language. Rust itself is not a startup or a company product. The economics are completely different.
- Brian_K_White 2y agos/default/defacto
- cbarrick 2y agos/defacto/de facto/
- benatkin 2y agos/$/\//
- Brian_K_White 2y agoadmitted
- tux3 2y agoor, s@$@/@, I don't know whether that's more or less cryptic :)
- mappu 2y agoNo, "default dead" is VC-speak for a business that relies on runway to operate rather than being profitable.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoIs Servo a business? I thought it was an open source software library?
- orf 2y agoIt’s obviously not a business.
- leoc 2y agoI assume that they're hoping that the EU or an EU member-state steps up; or failing that, maybe a (probably-US) nonprofit or billionaire donor, perhaps a Laurene Powell Jobs or MacKenzie Scott type. To be clear, something like this very probably should happen. I'm heading to social media to shout into the void about this: dear reader, you should probably do this too, and use any other means you might have to steer the attention of decision-makers towards this. That said, in the longer term the solution to the WWW"'s Too Big To Fork problem surely has to involve getting much more of the "specification" expressed precisely in declarative specification languages, so as to greatly reduce the handwork involved in generating a half-decent implementation.
- alex_duf 2y agoI don't think a single big donation is a good idea. We're so used to seeing extreme wealth we don't event question it. Once a big donation is given, you get to wonder what sort of influence that person (willingly or not) has had on the project. A much better model is a large amount of small donations, the incentive becomes to serve the maximum amount of these people.
- leoc 2y agoI too would prefer that the funding come from a relatively hands-off source, like some EU pot, if possible. But I think that nearly any (reasonably likely) funding source would be preferable to letting Servo development fail.
- LeFantome 2y agoWhat we need are multiple implementations, all giving feedback on the spec: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
- striking 2y agoA lot of private funding at these consultancies actually comes from pet features. Some company says "hmm, we sure do rely on XYZ feature a lot, would be nice if it were faster", they throw some money at a consultancy like Igalia, and then it becomes faster for everyone. No need for a big pot all at once, though I'm sure that'd be really nice.
- nar001 2y agoHopefully they don't! I wanna see where this goes, we need more browser engines
- Vinnl 2y agoThe article was first posted in 2024, which made it feel less so at the time :) Should probably have a "(2024)" appended to the title.