On: Firefox Reality

[tyingq]

I'm curious if Firefox has considered a GSuite competitor. Their IOT/home-router offering looks great, and a similarly privacy-first GSuite might get a lot of cross sell.

[bytematic → tyingq]

That would be cool but a beast of a project and a hard sell to big business. Maybe start with email/calendar/etc. first

[nfoz → bytematic]

I think you've just come full-circle to Mozilla Thunderbird which has been around since 2003.

- https://www.thunderbird.net/

- https://www.thunderbird.net/calendar/

[tyingq → nfoz]

I was thinking some version of privacy centric webmail + suite (yes, I get the issue). The market for Thunderbird is just too niche.

[kwijibob → tyingq]

Mozilla should partner with Libreoffice to make their web version a polished competitor to GSuite.

[tyingq → kwijibob]

Web Libreoffice plus a decent integrated webmail implementation seems like it would do well. Several companies are charging $5+/month/user for less, and are doing well, right now.

[cesarb → nfoz]

It's from even earlier, since from what I recall it's a direct descendant of the email client which was part of Netscape Navigator in the late 90s.

[sanbor → tyingq]

GSuite? Who uses that? Better to invest in VR. /sarcasm