[BeaglePlaza]

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?

[rusl1]

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

[BeaglePlaza]

Thanks, very cool!

[toyg]

> 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".

[floatingatoll]

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

[smcleod]

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

[floatingatoll]

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

[BeaglePlaza]

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

[eeh]

https://github.com/mozilla/send