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by steveklabnik
3242 days ago
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Mozilla employee paid to work on Rust here. We (that is, Mozilla employees who work on Rust) tend to think of Rust as an open source project we contribute to heavily, rather than a Mozilla project that's open source. This has a number of implications. Mozilla holds a trademark on the name and logo, and pays some salaries. They also pay for the CI bill. Copyright is held by the individual contributors, not Mozilla. Governance of Rust itself is comprised of many small teams. https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/team.html Last time I checked, there's roughly 60 people on those teams, and 15 of them are employed by Mozilla. The "core team" is 6 Mozilla employees out of 9 people. We have had almost 2100 contributors in an all-time sense, for each six-week release period, we have about 120 people on average. So the vast majority of work is done by non-Mozilla people. Take from this what you will :) |
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I'm curious how many of those people are working on behalf of another company though :)