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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. Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, after the insane popularity of Firefox, i thought Thunderbird was going to recieve a similar reception with hundreds of programmers swarming to help write it.

    The team has done a great job.

    LET THE REVOLUTION BEGIN !

  2. $US4.90 on its way by loddington · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have transferred the entire balance of my paypal account. All $4.90 of it.

    Thanks for the great work guys.

    Ps. can we have a button on the toolbar that launches your default browser (firefox)?

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  3. Re:Snail mail addresses? by Jahf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But many people (like myself and another on this thread) use PayPal for a floating Ebay account. No cost to me (in fact, I make a little interest on it since I went for the investment account). Lets me drop the random dollar here and there pretty easily.

    I don't think anyone is going to find fault in not doing this if you don't already have a PayPal account.

    Honestly, though I did send my $1, I don't see this getting much attention as the "Developer" section on /. is about the most dead topic ... as noted by the whopping 12 or so responses after an hour or two.

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  4. And if you don't have Paypal? by Twylite · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, some of us don't have Paypal accounts, and can't get them. Paypal isn't available in all countries. It sucks. Any suggestions?

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  5. Re:Million Schmillion... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    *** Cue the Church Lady from SNL: ***
    Well isn't that SPECIAL!!!

    Thunderbird is not the only IMAP client out there, and like the grandparent post pointed out, it's nowhere close to even beating Outlook Express. I've had more trouble with Thunderbird going blonde on me and simply crashing that I would be embarassed to be associated with it from a developers' standpoint.

    Personally, I think Evolution is MUCH better for IMAP mail anyway...