Thank you for this. While the announcements themselves are welcomed, a lot of detail of the actual structure of the foundation is missing or perhaps not clear.
Something feels strange about the founding members of the Rust foundation. It looks like Rust is going to have a similar structure like the C++ committees or even the Linux Foundation (which Servo is now part of) given how big tech companies seems to have a wide presence in these technologies and these foundations which is fine for usage, but very worrying in terms of having seats at the board with the potential risk for them to drive that technology in their interests and we have no say about this.
I feel these announcements have glossed over this important aspect.
A significant difference between the C++ committees and the Rust Foundation is that the RF has no technical decision making capacity. The language team is the sole governing body of the Rust language, and they are not a part of the foundation.
https://opensource.com/business/16/2/bright-lines
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-unsung-heroes-of-modern-s...
https://livablesoftware.com/study-open-source-foundations/