Re:A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services
by toyg on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:28AM
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> 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".
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".