Servo is the only browser engine I've been excited about for a while, so, time to help them out
@whitequark@mastodon.social I'm excited about it too! But I don't wanna get burned by the slooooow onset of badness that Mozilla has had or the instant milkshake ladybird fiasco.
Do you have, or do you know of, a good explainer of their new non profit for people who aren't legal experts? Since both OpenAI and ol Mozzy have this "we're a non-profit!... that owns a for profit entity" type of structure that basically ends up acting like a for-profit venture I'm... just more cautious about these types of structures than I used to be.
@aud Mozilla has not been involved with Servo since 2020
@whitequark@mastodon.social Oh no, I know! I just meant that Servo just started a non-profit so I'm curious if there's been any sort of like... explainer? Easy-to-digest analysis? for people not of the legal persuasion. The only reason I brought up Mozilla was because they're technically non-profit but then own a for-profit corporation and use this to justify all sorts of weirdness so I'm just curious about what the possibilities are here, for them.
@aud @whitequark
From what I know, they have their own fund managed by the Linux Foundation, contributions come from Igalia and others, but otherwise little is known about who major contributors are and whether it affects their decision making in any way.
They have their own page about it, but it doesn't shed any light: https://servo.org/sponsorship/
They don't look big enough (yet) though for something fishy to be happening 🤷
