wth is going on at mozilla? There seems to be a lot of excitement to create stuff, without much attention to whether it's needed .. or where the lifecycle goes beyond creation.
http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2014/09/professional-transiti...
http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2014/09/professional-transiti...
I'd love to see that effort concentrated on solving actual problems in a focused way, or maybe even making Firefox not sucky.
I was under the impression that Servo would end up being the web browser engine powering newer versions of Firefox (or any other flagship Mozilla browsers to be) and from my more extensive reading after reading your comment, I appear to be mistaken.
The underlying point I was making though (if it still stands) is that the good folks at Mozilla are not exactly sitting on their collective ass, they are in fact trying really hard (and the bleeding edge way) to make the web better.
I never claimed that they're sitting on their collective ass. They're certainly trying to make the web better, but by running in a million directions at once (due to the lack of direction) they end up going nowhere.
For a good example of a business that divested its underperforming businesses to the great benefit of its shareholders, look at General Dynamics beginning around 1994.
I thought they did exactly this with Persona. It seems like they barely gave it a shot before pulling the plug, and a trusted, neutral federated login is still not a solved problem.