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TL;DR:

  's/Mozilla Foundation/Rust Foundation/g'

The creation of an independent non-profit foundation that will legally own and control all digital and physical property associated with the Rust language (from the Rust name itself to domains like crates.io) is a great development for the language.

IMHO, this was overdue: Rust's impact and influence today is global, and extends well beyond the confines of Mozilla. Many businesses and organizations building mission-critical applications with Rust will now be able to support and influence development of the language more directly through the new foundation. Long term, I have an inkling that it will lead to greater/broader adoption of Rust.

>>cs702+(OP)
I have to be honest, I thought this was already the case.

>>cs702+(OP)
Yeah, it's just really hard to get things right. And time spent managing a foundation's business takes time away from managing the project itself, at least in the beginning, where there is significant overlap.

Basically, bootstrapping is always a hard problem :)

>>mwill+j
When it comes to the Rust project: it was already well outside the confines of Mozilla, with an independent leadership team, and with a lot of the infrastructure being run by other companies (Github/Microsoft for CI, Amazon for storage, etc)

The main stuff that was left over was the trademarks, domains, and some infrastructure.

>>cs702+(OP)
Behind the scene work for this already started last year (or even earlier?).

The recent events are if anything only an aclerator for this.