Hmmm.. How would that work beyond Firefox if it wasnt a standard?
Persona was a good nobel idea, but like many Mozilla endeavors without a commercial goal it was doomed to failure, a few devs and devops costs money (a lot in the US, let's say 3 devs - 2 devops, office space, benefits etc.. easily 1m). Slightly OT beyond Firefox has Mozilla done anything commercially successful? Mobile software failure (cant imagine Android FF pays for itsself), device failure, SSO failure. How much revenue % is accounted for beyond the Google search integration?
Update: Just thought they made Rust and Servo that's pretty cool and my post sounds a little shitty, Rust seems awesome, but commercial avenue (back to reality) seems extremely limited here..
> How would that work beyond Firefox if it wasn't a standard?
Done properly, it hopefully would've been. (There was even some branding around the vague hope that it would eventually be a standard - "BrowserID"). As it stands... the Persona devs never even tried to create an extension for Firefox to show what they were trying to do (there's some early mockups that explain some of it), nor did they attempt to standardise it. The project was mismanaged to failure.
> has Mozilla done anything commercially successful?
Mozilla is primarily a non-profit organisation, "commercially successful" is not the goal. Mozilla Corp, the wholly owned tax-paying subsidiary, is simply a legal tool to make it less difficult to sell things like search integration, not to be a commercial success.
The question is whether much of their work successfully furthers their goals as outlined in their mission statement and manifesto.[0]
Persona was a good nobel idea, but like many Mozilla endeavors without a commercial goal it was doomed to failure, a few devs and devops costs money (a lot in the US, let's say 3 devs - 2 devops, office space, benefits etc.. easily 1m). Slightly OT beyond Firefox has Mozilla done anything commercially successful? Mobile software failure (cant imagine Android FF pays for itsself), device failure, SSO failure. How much revenue % is accounted for beyond the Google search integration?
Update: Just thought they made Rust and Servo that's pretty cool and my post sounds a little shitty, Rust seems awesome, but commercial avenue (back to reality) seems extremely limited here..