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One year of sponsored Servo development

358 points · 144 comments · AshleysBrain

  1. flossly · · focus · HN ↗
    I really wish a patron would step up and sponsor this project. Not just by money, but also by plugging it in their browser-carrying products. Maybe Hauwei of Samgsung; they now sling a browser derived of another for-profit --usually competitor-- company's browser.
    1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
      So right now Servo is funded by the community, and this is no good because why? Instead you propose that this project should be funded by a for-profit company with it's own objectives in this world (that often starts with "more money"), again leading me to ask why?

      The setup right now seems to give enough people enough time to work on it to move forward, why on earth would you want to involve companies infamous for their shit software quality, like Samsung?

      1. flossly · · focus · HN ↗
        > So right now Servo is funded by the community, and this is no good because why?

        Because look at Mozilla... You need to get the browser in front of people. A browser that works on the real web, is such a huge project, you cannot do it as a hobby community-funded project for ever. You need user-share-%.

        Samsung can put it in front of Samsung appliance users.

        1. 112233 · · focus · HN ↗
          Samsung has put Enlightenment 17 in front of every Tizen user. I am not seeing the flood of apps implemented on EFL coming out
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