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Re:What happened to Firefox Send? by johannes1234321 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:37AM (#24515466)
Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important. Also a single feature can be unprofitable if it helps to drive the related products.

First argument is more relevant, I see it as underestimated the risk there and coming out of a technical experiment ...

That all said: Mozilla Corp's "focussing" doesn't convince me.

Re:What happened to Firefox Send? by elithrar on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:52AM (#24515560)
> Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important.

“Non-profit” doesn’t mean “don’t make profits” or “set a pile of money on fire”.

Re:What happened to Firefox Send? by kace91 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:56AM (#24515584)
> Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important.

I included that argument because it's mentioned explicitly by them:

> as we weighed the cost of our overall portfolio and strategic focus, we made the decision not to relaunch the service.

Re:What happened to Firefox Send? by heftig on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:12AM (#24515678)
This doesn't imply the benefits that were weighted against the costs were monetary.