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Comment by BeaglePlaza | Hacker News Reader

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

Thanks, very cool!

> 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".

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

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

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

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

https://github.com/mozilla/send

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