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Mozilla Outsourcing to Microsoft Proprietary Software via 'Linux' Foundation

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 17th of November 2020 07:05:30 PM Filed under
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  • The Servo Blog: Servo’s new home

    The Servo Project is excited to announce that it has found a new home with the Linux Foundation. Servo was incubated inside Mozilla, and served as the proof that important web components such as CSS and rendering could be implemented in Rust, with all its safety, concurrency and speed. Now it’s time for Servo to leave the nest!

  • Servo Project Joins The Linux Foundation Fold

    The Linux Foundation today announced at KubeKon that it is hosting the Servo web engine, an open-source, high-performance browser engine. "Servo is the most promising, modern, and open web engine for building applications and immersive experiences using web technologies," according to Mike Dolan, senior vice president and general manager of projects at the Linux Foundation. The post Servo Project Joins The Linux Foundation Fold appeared first on LinuxInsider.

  • Open Source Web Engine Servo to be Hosted at Linux Foundation

    The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it will host the Servo web engine. Servo is an open source, high-performance browser engine designed for both application and embedded use and is written in the Rust programming language, bringing lightning-fast performance and memory safety to browser internals. Industry support for this move is coming from Futurewei, Let’s Encrypt, Mozilla, Samsung, and Three.js, among others.

    “The Linux Foundation’s track record for hosting and supporting the world’s most ubiquitous open source technologies makes it the natural home for growing the Servo community and increasing its platform support,” said Alan Jeffrey, Technical Chair of the Servo project. “There’s a lot of development work and opportunities for our Servo Technical Steering Committee to consider, and we know this cross-industry open source collaboration model will enable us to accelerate the highest priorities for web developers.”

  • Mozilla Punts Servo Web Engine Development To The Linux Foundation

    Ever since the mass layoffs at Mozilla earlier this year and some Mozilla projects in jeopardy many have been wondering: what about Servo? Well, today it's heading off to the Linux Foundation.

    Mozilla and the Linux Foundation are jointly announcing this morning that the Servo web engine development will now be hosted by the Linux Foundation.

    The Rust-written code-base that's served as a long in development "next-gen" web engine at Mozilla will now be developed under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Besides Mozilla, this move has the support of other industry stakeholders like Samsung and Let's Encrypt.

  • Linux Foundation: We'll host Mozilla's Rust programming language-based Servo web engine

    The latest open-source project to be hosted on the Linux Foundation is Servo, the experimental web engine developed at cash-strapped Mozilla.

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More on this outsourcing

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of November 2020 03:57:15 AM.
  • Hacks.Mozilla.Org: Foundations for the Future

    This week the Servo project took a significant next step in bringing community-led transformative innovations to the web by announcing it will be hosted by the Linux Foundation. Mozilla is pleased to see Servo, which began as a research effort in 2012, open new doors that can lead it to ever broader benefits for users and the web. Working together, the Servo project and Linux Foundation are a natural fit for nurturing continued growth of the Servo community, encouraging investment in development, and expanding availability and adoption.

  • Linux Foundation to host open-source Servo web engine

    The Linux Foundation announced Tuesday that it was becoming the host of the open-source Servo web engine originally developed at Mozilla.

    Web engines are the core software component of web browsers and are responsible for rendering HTML content into what's seen on the screen of devices like laptops and smartphones. Numerous webkits exist, like Apple's WebKit, Google's Blink, and Mozilla's Gecko, each of which make up the core of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, respectively.

Rust-Based Servo Web Engine Moves to Linux Foundation

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of November 2020 05:52:12 AM.

SD Times news digest: Linux Foundation to host Servo web engine

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of November 2020 08:23:17 PM.
  • SD Times news digest: Linux Foundation to host Servo web engine, Postman public workspaces beta launched, and split diffs added in GitHub Desktop

    The Linux Foundation has announced it will now host the Servo web engine. Servo is an open source, high-performance browser engine that is designed for both application and embedded use and is written in the Rust programming language.

    “The Linux Foundation’s track record for hosting and supporting the world’s most ubiquitous open source technologies makes it the natural home for growing the Servo community and increasing its platform support,” said Alan Jeffrey, the technical chair of the Servo project. “There’s a lot of development work and opportunities for our Servo Technical Steering Committee to consider, and we know this cross-industry open source collaboration model will enable us to accelerate the highest priorities for web developers.”

Servo browser engine adopted by Linux Foundation

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 19th of November 2020 09:03:03 PM.
  • Servo browser engine adopted by Linux Foundation

    Servo, an open source browser engine originally developed at Mozilla, has moved over to the Linux Foundation.

    A modular, embeddable web engine written in Mozilla’s Rust language, Servo shares code with the Firefox browser and is intended to enable delivery of content and applications via web standards. Created in 2012, Servo incubated technologies later incorporated into Firefox such as the WebRender GPU-based rendering system.

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