[ipaddr]

Because Servo is run by others with a different agenda that came from a billion dollar company that gets hundreds of millions from a trillion dollar company and they decided to dropped it. The political effort to get to a place where you can shape the project is a huge mountain to climb and unlikely.

Starting your own project you can set the agenda and pace and truly create your vision.

The people who want to do the first idea are very different from the group that want to do the second.

[shiroiushi]

Why not fork it then? You don't need to be able to set the agenda for a project if you just fork it and rename it: you can now set the agenda for your fork and ignore the other project, while not having to spend time reinventing the wheel.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

As if that wouldn't end up with the same style of "why don't you just" comments?

[kentrado]

This is a slippery slope argument.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

Me saying there's not a distinction between forking and writing your own project from the "why don't you just" perspective has nothing to do with a slippery slope.