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The Dollar Campaign For Thunderbird Devs

Posted by timothy on from the reasonable-is-an-understatement dept.

Robert Accettura writes "In a rather comical spirit, Seth Spitzer (of ex-Netscape fame) is asking Thunderbird users to donate one dollar (or about 0.77 if you're in Europe) to Scott and David, the lead engineers of Thunderbird. Unlike Firefox, with quite a large community submitting patches, Scott and David have been working with much less community aid, and still managed to deliver a very solid product. This is a little way to thank them for managing to do so much with so little to keep our inboxes free of spam and easy to use."

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  1. Re:About 0.77 what? by byolinux · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.xe.com/ucc reveals 0.74 eurocent to the $.

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  2. Snail mail addresses? by IO+ERROR · · Score: 4, Informative

    At the rates PayPal charges for credit card transactions it would be cheaper for me to mail each of them a dollar bill.

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  3. Credentials? by Bitsy+Boffin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ok, so perhaps some of us know who this Seth is, and why we should trust him enough to actually send money to him to forward to the Tbird developers.

    But I'd wager most Thunderbird users don't, me included.

    The site has no links to information about Seth, his name is just a mailto: link

    The FAQ says:

    Q: Is this a scam?
    A: No. But if you don't trust me you could donate your dollar to the Mozilla Foundation. See http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html

    My advice - do just that, or get the developer's email addresses and donate direct to them through paypal. If you give money to random people on the web, well, more fool you.

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    1. Re:Credentials? by asa · · Score: 2, Informative

      Seth's a good guy. He was responsible for much of the Mozilla mail code that lives on in Thunderbird.

      You don't have to take my word for it, either. Google for Seth or look at Bonsai and Bugzilla over at the Mozilla project to see how much he's contributed over the years.

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  4. Re:I just sent my $1.00 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Use the link at the bottom of the page....

  5. Re:Thunderbird users by asa · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thunderbird users. What? Both of them?

    Actually, there were over 1 million downloads of Thunderbird 1.0 in the first ten days after the release and the total is over one a quarter million today, two weeks after the release.

    --Asa