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So Telefonica is just doing this because they're really nice guys and aren't trying to increase the visibility of their products? And the Mozilla Foundation too
by whoopdedo 11y ago
So Telefonica is just doing this because they're really nice guys and aren't trying to increase the visibility of their products? And the Mozilla Foundation took on the extra code debt only because they were 100% convinced users wanted these extensions and not because they received a sizable donation from their partner to have it installed and on the toolbar by default with no way to completely remove it unlike every other extension.
- callahad 11y agoPocket (Read It Later, Inc.) has nothing to do with Telefonica.
- thristian 11y agoTelefonica has nothing to do with the Pocket extension, they just (as far as I know) run the rendezvous servers that support the Hello feature. Mozilla wanted to ship a WebRTC implementation, but it's not much use having webcam and microphone input unless you can send them to other people, and in this age of NAT and firewalls, that needs a rendezvous server. Mozilla had already had fruitful business interactions with Telefonica with FirefoxOS, and a telco seems like a reasonable choice for hosting a long-uptime network service... In exchange for donating server hosting, Telefonica gets to display their logo in the Hello UI. I don't know if they also shelled out money in addition to hosting a service, but 80% of Hello's code is Firefox platform stuff (VP8 encoding and decoding, etc.) not Telefonica stuff.