I’m not sure “killed” is the correct term as most of Mozilla’s offerings have been free and often open source. I think “discontinued” or something like “stopped internal development of” would be more sensible, but I guess that wouldn’t make a good domain name or get the clicks.
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#12Some of these are a bit spurious. I mean, Venkman was replaced by Firebug, which was much better. MXR was similarly replaced by DXR. Unlike Google, which look much more arbitrary in their shutdowns, Mozilla typically kill projects that are already on their last leg, or replace them with something objectively better.
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#14Doesn't have quite the same effect as the Google one.
I'm still bitter over Google Reader.
Damn you, Google.
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#15Better Mozilla products being discontinued than Mozilla being discontinued.
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#16Hi HN, this is a quick website I made this weekend. It was super fun reading about older projects and digging up links in the Internet Archive! The list is far from complete (I still have a long list of services I stumbled across to add), please let me know if you have any feedback, or find anything I missed or got wrong. It was difficult to find info on the older items on the list!
Great list! But some of the last few entries seem like a bit of stretch to call "killed by Mozilla". They look like Netscape leftovers that were simply open sourced.
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#17I’m not sure “killed” is the correct term as most of Mozilla’s offerings have been free and often open source. I think “discontinued” or something like “stopped internal development of” would be more sensible, but I guess that wouldn’t make a good domain name or get the clicks.
Most of Google's offerings that get killed are free and HN jumps all over that (rightfully, IMO).
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#18Not sure I understand the intent. The Google page had an obvious implied message: don't use google products, they will abandon them even if they are wildly popular, and not even open source the project so someone else can keep it alive. None of these were ever very popular in the first place, and most of them (if not all?) were open source even from the very beginning.
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#19These 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?
> 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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#20I’m not sure “killed” is the correct term as most of Mozilla’s offerings have been free and often open source. I think “discontinued” or something like “stopped internal development of” would be more sensible, but I guess that wouldn’t make a good domain name or get the clicks.
Most of Google's offerings that get killed are free and HN jumps all over that (rightfully, IMO).
Different sense of the word 'free' in use here.