The setup right now seems to give enough people enough time to work on it to move forward, why on earth would you want to involve companies infamous for their shit software quality, like Samsung?
Because look at Mozilla... You need to get the browser in front of people. A browser that works on the real web, is such a huge project, you cannot do it as a hobby community-funded project for ever. You need user-share-%.
Samsung can put it in front of Samsung appliance users.
So sure, Samsung would bundle it with their usual crap, but if it helps making the engine more mature, great, but I also don't see why they would in the first place.
The same would occur again.
And if FF also starts to restrict UO, I just go to chrome then. I assume many think like me.
That folks want to take it further is admirable. But doubtful Mozilla could have afforded to with their existing commitments.
You understand that Mozilla Firefox is not funded by the "community" and is completely funded by Google's money. Even donating does not fund the browser.
Mozilla knows that the open source "community" has no money, and cannot replace the amount of money Google is paying them and the employees who work on the browser.
The question is are you ready to fill the $600M a year black hole for Google to NOT pay Mozilla to fund Firefox?
It only makes sense for Servo to get funding from for-profit companies at this point, which is one of the only ways open source can work.