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by jfk13 2045 days ago
Is it really so unlikely? Firefox integrates all kinds of components from elsewhere; why shouldn't it continue adopting parts of Servo where appropriate?
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Seems just more unlikely.

It's one thing for a mozilla team member to say "Hey, let's pull the servo css layout engine into firefox" It's a whole different thing for someone to say "Hey, let's pull the webkit css layout engine into firefox".

The servo stuff, while for experimentation, was ultimately geared towards the notion of landing parts of it into firefox. It was built for that. Under an opensource foundation maintainer model, there's a strong possibility that it moves from that as a goal.

I would still expect servo to at loosely remain "firefox shaped", at least far more than the separately-developed webkit lineage.
The true difference is that Servo is more modular than WebKit.
So the Servo developers will now work for free but Mozilla will start to leech from it? That would be uncool.
It's an open-source project - a lot of us have already been working for free :)
Would be preferable imo, helps keep the name in the news and is a reason for the product to exist and expand. If FF uses it and it gets embedded into web apps outside of that it will a big boon to the project and rust community.