LWN's guide to 2024

Posted Jan 3, 2024 9:31 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (guest, #27559)
In reply to: LWN's guide to 2024 by alison
Parent article: LWN's guide to 2024

> Why not influence the direction of the Mozilla Foundation by making a monetary contribution?

You don't fix a misallocation-of-funds problem with more money

Your donation just underwrites the comp of the existing leadership

I also fail to see how Mozilla's treatment of Rust can be seen as a success...they followed their good luck of incubating the tech by turning the entire team.

LWN's guide to 2024

Posted Jan 3, 2024 20:01 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

Mozilla incubated Rust until it became so important that it could continue to flourish without Mozilla's financial help. That's certainly a form of success.

In one way, Mozilla cutting their Rust team actually *helped* Rust: people used to worry about the future of Rust if Mozilla cut that support (sometimes in public as a FUD tactic, sometimes in good faith), and now they don't.