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0 pointsksec9y ago0 comments

Translation: Firefox is not Apple nor Google or Microsoft whom has literally unlimited resources. By having engineers on Test Pilot they are having less resources to do what he think is important

Personal Take: Completely agree. I am opening up Firefox with Panarama Mode missing, Pocket, Hello.

And BTW, e10s hasn't shipped yet, and at the current timeline, even if it ship in Firefox 49/50 it will still not be any good for power / heavy tab users, which incidentaly is the only group left using Firefox, most have moved on to Chrome.

I see light of hope in Servo. But liscenses ( MPL? Why not Apache 2.0 ) are a concern for a few company to join and devote resources into it. ( Apart from Samsung )

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stymaar9y ago

> I see light of hope in Servo. But liscenses ( MPL? Why not Apache 2.0 ) are a concern for a few company to join and devote resources into it.

Copyleft licences are often the best way to go in this kind of situations: thanks to the GPL, Linux remained one until Google forked it for Android. And 15 years after its beginning, there is no fragmentation in the kernel space. On the other hand, BSD has been forked many times by companies to build their own proprietary OS [1].

The MPL will ensure that Servo is never forked by Google/Apple/Microsoft into a competing proprietary software, but will remain a free software.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_his...

ksecOP9y ago

I am not against Copyleft at all, but MPL in particular because no one is using it apart from Mozilla. They could have use GPL or LGPL instead.

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