You have to be willing to lose in life. It's unrealistic to expect all hits all the time. If some organization or open source project seems too perfect, look fo

You have to be willing to lose in life. It's unrealistic to expect all hits all the time. If some organization or open source project seems too perfect, look for a "memory hole" where their negative results get flushed. So XULRunner and Tamarin did not pan out. But we have lots of hits, some still ramping up: Firefox, Firefox OS, Gecko, Servo, Rust, Fennec, various SpiderMonkey iterations including OdinMonkey for Emscripten/asm.js, PDF.js, Shumway. Negative results are important in science, as roc blogged once (he cited a "Journal of Negative Results", in one of the physical sciences I think). Let's learn from them and make better results, not deny that they happen or keep on banging heads against stout oak trees....