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>>stevek+(OP)
It is good news that rust is settling up a independent foundation.

If other shelved or high risk Mozilla projects such as MDN , servo , thunderbird setup similarly it would enable us to directly contribute to the projects instead of the foundation or not at all.

The only project the corporation would never let go is Firefox as it their revenue source , however other projects could perhaps be salvaged

>>manque+y3
I agree it would be best if FF was it's own foundation. I would like to hear some arguments from Mozilla about this. It seems an idea that only has upsides to me. I get the feeling Mozilla is kind-of hijacking the donations people think are going towards Firefox.

>>0xcoff+s4
On the other hand, Mozilla has done a lot of stuff which is outside the scope of "Firefox", but which is good for the community as a whole. I mean, that's what Firefox was originally: an offshoot of the Mozilla monstrosity that Mozilla (the organization) took and ran with, to everyone's appreciation.

Plus, if people were donating towards Firefox specifically, how many of them would be upset that Mozilla was spending "their" money on developing a whole new programming language? "This is a waste of my money, just use C++ or something instead of reinventing the wheel".