[meragrin_]

So Microsoft, Amazon, and Google being founding platinum members has little bearing on Rust transitioning to a foundation model which is not a Mozilla-centric organization?

[lacker]

Well those are great too. Every donation helps the Rust Foundation do its work, it's as simple as that.

[whatshisface]

The only thing that has any bearing on why Rust transitioned to a non-Mozilla-centric organization is the fact that Mozilla cut the team to focus on Firefox.

[jhgb]

> to focus on Firefox.

Finally? It took them almost two decades!