Wait, Servo is the core browser engine of Firefox isn't it? Do they intend to become FF another Webkit-based browser?
What many people are (reasonably) afraid of at the moment is a de-facto monopoly of Webkit controlled by Google. So that Google is in a position to shape the web for their sole business benefit and against the benefit of the rest of us.
If FF joined the Webkit camp as an active driver, the monopoly (in terms of control) would be mostly gone and be replaced by what I'd call a standard and its broadly spread implementation. A web-standard implementation followed by all major vendors.
Of course branches are likely to divert after a while, but for brief moment in time, everything in web-land would be rainbows and unicorns.
Um, just calling a monopoly a "standard" doesn't make it so. There are already standards for the the web that are defined by the W3C. It is a win for a standard if there are multiple implementations rather than just one, not the other way round as you are claiming.
WebKit is controlled almost entirely by Apple.
Also i strongly suppose parent was refering to Edge migrating to Chromium.
Ask Edge devs about Google services incompatibility.
Even if they are the same bloody thing inside.
Your point was Mozilla could be a strong voice in WebStandards? There won't be any standards. It will be whatever Google does.
Yes, kind of. One among multiple strong-ish actors. So Google would have the Edge team and Mozilla against them. My reasoning was there would be more counter-weight than with Mozilla doing their thing while slowly being marginalized.
But perhaps I was too optimistic regarding the world's dependance on Google Services (or rather as the worlds perceives it).
Independently of this hypothetical scenario I hope (and still belieive) there are still enough circles remaining which aren't that much associated with Google Services to sustain a user base for alternative products. Rainbows and unicorns again...
<INSERT J Jonah Jameson laughing>
That's like Goliath fighting two baby kittens.
> I hope (and still belieive) there are still enough circles remaining which aren't that much associated with Google Services to sustain a user base for alternative products. Rainbows and unicorns again...
At this point, I think the only hope I have is that EU, basically does a successful anti-trust lawsuit, or if someone invents something else that destroys Google, in the same way mobile destroyed Microsoft's grip on computing market.
Servo is/was kind of a clean slate reimplementation of an engine in Rust. Some parts of Servo have been carved off and implemented into Firefox, though.