Was dispersing the MDN and Rust teams part of the deal?

threatofrain · on Aug 14, 2020

Google may want Mozilla around for anti-trust defense, but it's not like Google's particularly interested in how tightly Mozilla runs the ship.

buran77 · on Aug 14, 2020

On PCs Chrome has ~70% market share with Firefox being a distant second with <8%. On mobile Firefox's market share is a negligible 0.7% compared to Google's 64%. If Google wants Firefox to stick around it's certainly not because it would give them any plausible defense in an antitrust lawsuit.

PaulHoule · on Aug 14, 2020

If it gets any more lopsided than it is, Google will be in trouble.

bryanrasmussen · on Aug 14, 2020

Well Google might want to get rid of the Servo team... but that would seem to be a really stupid deal to make in case it ever became public.

yodelshady · on Aug 14, 2020

I'm not sure why they'd benefit from that, but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust.

For once I'm taking a not-conspiratorial line and think it's just all concerned parties wanting fewer bugs in software. But it does lead to an interesting line of thought for Mozilla...

Barrin92 · on Aug 14, 2020

>but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust.

Microsoft put a report out a while ago that memory safety issues account for over 70% of security bugs in microsoft products[1] which they attribute to unsafe languages in the codebase so it seems natural that they're interested in Rust.

[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...