[rl3]

>Above all, this year has reinforced for me that sometimes a deeply held mission requires massive wrenching change in order to be realized.

Yeah, like firing your researchers. What good was that Servo thing anyways? Don't need no PhDs when you can write endless self-aggrandizing blog posts while increasing your own pay.

[jwilber]

Seriously. What a sad arc Mozilla has taken: from one of the most respected companies to one of the least, and all while boosting the executives pay fourfold. Won’t be sad to see them capsize in their current iteration.

[kgraves]

Did you really expect Mozilla to care about Servo?

I'm sorry, but to them it was a experimental toy that didn't make them any money and they saw it as a cost center.

[rl3]

>Did you really expect Mozilla to care about Servo?

Yes. Servo represented a major technological differentiation from Chromium-based browsers while remaining competitive if not superior. A triumph in any real sense, not just for Mozilla but for everyone who cared about the future of the web.

>I'm sorry, but to them it was a experimental toy that didn't make them any money and they saw it as a cost center.

WebRender was part of that experimental toy, and it shipped to production years ago.

Cutting costs via way of sacking R&D is a type of short-term thinking that's so devoid of foresight it boggles the mind.

[zamadatix]

In nearly 2 decades a high 90s percentage of their profit has been search deals for Firefox which is where a lot of the stuff from Servo ended up so I'm not sure it could be construed as unsurprising or useless.