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Submission + - Mozilla WebThings IoT platform spun out as an independent open source project (mozilla.org)

tola writes: Following a round of layoffs at Mozilla, their WebThings IoT platform (https://iot.mozilla.org) is being spun out as an independent open source project by former employees, with a new commercial sponsor.

WebThings is an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web, built on W3C Web of Things standards. It includes WebThings Gateway which is a software distribution for smart home gateways focused on privacy, security and interoperability and the WebThings Framework which is a collection of re-usable software components to help developers build their own web things.

The project will be renamed from "Mozilla WebThings" to "WebThings" and will move to a new home at https://webthings.io/ Users will be able to opt-in to receive software updates from the new community run update servers and be offered the opportunity to transition to a replacement remote tunnelling service before Mozilla servers are shut down at the end of the year.

Comment Re:Sad people (Score 1) 226

Surely the whole point of a web based OS is that it makes the desktop operating system irrelevent? If they'd done it right it wouldn't be platofrm dependent the first time around. I think they use Flash for the user interfaces, so what's the problem?

It annoys me that the web site decides that Firefox under Linux can't handle their system and blocks you from even trying. These people have a good idea but in my opinion they're doing a lot of things wrong. Their implementation is too bandwidth hungry, it's browser dependent and they ask you for your credit card details for a free trial. People on the Internet expect things for free, and they don't like putting their credit details *anywhere* unless they've already decided to make a purchase.

The applications aren't simple enough and they're divided into functions labelled with made up names which aren't necessarily intuitive.

Great concept, bad implementation.

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