A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services

Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by BeaglePlaza on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:13AM (#24554563)

These are amazing efforts. I wish they would open source Firefox Send, I would love to continue the project. Let someone else take it over.

Many of these projects seem like they may have been funded by a specific donor, then when the donor got what they needed from the project, ended the funding?

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by rusl1 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:16AM (#24554589)

It is already open source https://github.com/mozilla/send

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by BeaglePlaza on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:09PM (#24559235)

Thanks, very cool!

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by toyg on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:28AM (#24554733)

> Many of these projects seem like they may have been funded by a specific donor,

Uhm, that's not the impression I got, as a total outsider. Things like FFSend or FFNotes were thought up as extensions to the browser model; others were attempts to cook up de-facto web standards (Persona, deuxdrop); others were just moonshots (FFOS).

In the early years, Netscape's needs definitely played a large part; after they got the Google money, though, they've mostly done things "because they could".

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by floatingatoll on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:31AM (#24554787)

Persona was also known as BrowserID. I've never heard of deuxdrop before though!

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by smcleod on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:16AM (#24554583)

Firefox Send is open source: https://github.com/mozilla/send

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by floatingatoll on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:34AM (#24554837)

The costs of running a Send server probably exceed those of its source code alone, which makes it a tricky proposition to say "here's the source code" alone. I'm not familiar myself, but I imagine it looks the same as any other public non-P2P file sharing service:

- Webapp & hosting costs

- Data storage & transfer costs

- Copyright & Abuse response costs

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by BeaglePlaza on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:11PM (#24559248)

Yes, but those are business challenges. Some handle it better than others, Mega seems to be doing it with a fairly small staff.

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Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services by eeh on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:16AM (#24554577)

https://github.com/mozilla/send

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