[vive-la-liberte]

That is a good point. To me, however, an important part of the appeal of Firefox has always been a belief that having multiple competing rendering engines is fundamentaly good for the open web -- that it keeps the HTML and CSS standards from growing in too much of an implementation specific direction. I had thought, perhaps without grounds, that this view was shared by Mozilla.

[bzbarsky]

This view is shared by many people at Mozilla (but not all, I expect; it's hard to find anything 1000+ people will agree on) and I believe shared by Mozilla overall. I mean, we're not just continuing to develop the rendering engine we already have (Gecko), we're creating another one as well (Servo)...