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Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by rfvrgvegbegn »

dannyobrien wrote: post #92
eitland wrote: post #62

> or donating to help cover the project’s new CI and hosting costs, Planning to do exactly that tonight. I'm one of those who stopped donating to Mozilla once I realized none of the money donated could ever be used for developing the browser. If anybody else thought like me tonight might be a good time to prove we were principled, not cheap. Edit: one more thing. Hopefully at some time we can now recreate Firefox wit…

Yep, I threw them $10 -- it was pretty easy (there was some strange scrolling problem on the first page, but I just hit the donate button and it went away) https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo

Do we really have to created an account to donate ?

I donate to Blender from time to time and I like how they just put an IBAN on their donation page ( https://www.blender.org/foundation/donation-payment/ )

I copy paste the IBAN in my e-banking app, send, done.

Why here do I have to read pages and pages of privacy policy, create an account, give my email, etc.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by dralley »

BearOso wrote: post #185
runarberg wrote: post #63

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> pay a large CEO salary Sure, I’ll buy that. > push policy objectives against free speech Can people please stop this latent homophobia? Mozilla fired a person who donated money to a deplorable cause. You can try to hide behind free speech, but we all know what this is about.

> Can people please stop this latent homophobia? Mozilla fired a person who donated money to a deplorable cause. You can try to hide behind free speech, but we all know what this is about. He quit. And I don’t agree with it, but I wouldn’t exactly call his cause deplorable. People with those views can believe they’re being completely ethical. That was also in 2008, a different political climate, and nobody allowed hi…

>He quit. And I don’t agree with it, but I wouldn’t exactly call his cause deplorable.

The purpose of Proposition 8 was to remove the right to marry from gay couples - yes remove - because the courts had already granted them that right.

If I was a gay Mozilla employee and I learned that my CEO wanted to remove rights which the legal system had already granted me, I would be so incredibly demoralized and pissed.

Regardless of personal beliefs, it's a bad thing for a leader of a tech company to be doing if they want to retain talent.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by dang »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #198
spankalee wrote: post #165

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I have to make code work in Cobalt as part of my job. You?

I write compositors, like the one you work with. Wanna compare some more?

Hey, please don't be a jerk in HN comments. If you know more than others, that's great, but the thing to do is to share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn something. If you don't want to do that, not posting anything is always an option. But please don't post unsubstantive comments and especially not nasty unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

dang wrote: post #203
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #198

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I write compositors, like the one you work with. Wanna compare some more?

Hey, please don't be a jerk in HN comments. If you know more than others, that's great, but the thing to do is to share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn something. If you don't want to do that, not posting anything is always an option. But please don't post unsubstantive comments and especially not nasty unsubstantive comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I welcome you to go read the rest of my posts in this thread and get back to me on whether or not my posts are substantive, thanks!

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by dralley »

dcgudeman wrote: post #177

I wish servo would adopt a more permissive license, something like MIT or BSD instead of MPL. I think that existing projects like chromium have a competitive advantage because they have permissive licenses. If the community around servo would like to see more projects like electron built around servo they should consider it.

MPL is a perfectly fine license. It has most of the benefits of permissive licenses (non-virality, worry-free integration with proprietary code) with most of the benefits of copyleft licenses also (changes to the library itself must be public).

I fail to see what benefits a more permissive license would bring.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by simias »

satyrnein wrote: post #75
baq wrote: post #35

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the CEO needs a new house.

She's hardly the most overpaid CEO in tech, but she seems to come up pretty often for some reason.

Some people have an axe to grind with Mozilla since that whole Brendan Eich thing, and on top of that there's just good old sexism.

This all contributes to create a very toxic subject that I generally tend to avoid, but I think that it's fair at this point to question Mozilla's execs results at this point. These past few years have been pretty brutal for Mozilla, and there's no clear path ahead from where I stand.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by pqoek »

vorpalhex wrote: post #106
coldpie wrote: post #64

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Every thread tangentially related to Mozilla has a bunch of people who don't understand how non-profits work come in and complain about executive compensation.

I'd say >$2.4M in exec comp[1] isn't just making up for a lack of stock options. [1] - https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-cuts-70-staff-as-part-of-p...

> The pay for Mozilla Chair and longtime leader Mitchell Baker in 2018, the most recent year for which the organization released the information, surpassed $2.4 million.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by pqoek »

simias wrote: post #206
satyrnein wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She's hardly the most overpaid CEO in tech, but she seems to come up pretty often for some reason.

Some people have an axe to grind with Mozilla since that whole Brendan Eich thing, and on top of that there's just good old sexism. This all contributes to create a very toxic subject that I generally tend to avoid, but I think that it's fair at this point to question Mozilla's execs results at this point. These past few years have been pretty brutal for Mozilla, and there's no clear path ahead from where I stand.

> good old sexism

The only comment mentioning her gender was someone defending her, you're pulling hair here

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by xiphias2 »

mkl wrote: post #175
xiphias2 wrote: post #44

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You missed Android. Firefox for mobile is so far behind Chrome, it’s unusable for me, most plugins don’t work. I would vote for HTML/CSS based browser (React / React Native?), though I know that a lot of operating system specific code needs to be written.

I find Firefox more usable than Chrome on Android. uBlock Origin works perfectly, and that's part of the reason.

I tried to install Google Translate extension and it was not supported. So when I have to choose between Google Translate or adblocking, it's already bad for me, as I like to use both of them on the PC.
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