The Dollar Campaign For Thunderbird Devs

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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[Anonymous Coward]

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 !

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[Jahf]

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.