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Mozilla Lightning Plans to Unify Mail & Calendar

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here's-hoping-it-works-out dept.

Neil writes "The Mozilla Foundation has published an initial roadmap for 'Lightning', the project to integrate its calendar application Sunbird with its email application Thunderbird."

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  1. why don't they call it "Look Out" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get it? Outlook... Look Out? LOL

  2. Why not by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 5, Funny

    just integrate everything - thunderbird, firefox and sunbird into one big application ?

    1. Re:Why not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Congratulations... you got the joke. Truly amazing; I wasn't sure you could do it.

    2. Re:Why not by Ixne · · Score: 2, Funny

      The name Firebird at least has a respected background in American Indian legend. Seamonkeys have a respected background on the shelves of a toystore (and later, making their way down your toilet.)

    3. Re:Why not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, names like Hyperbagel, Flyingwombat or Technochocolate!

    4. Re:Why not by mbbac · · Score: 3, Funny

      They should obviously rename Seamonkey to be Firemonkey or Thundermonkey.

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    5. Re:Why not by shokk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mozilla Foundation minutes
      9/25/2005

      12:01pm
      Unfortunately the name "clownpenis" was taken, so we had to go with SeaMonkey. Not a lot of good names out there. Can you believe Phil wanted to go with WebRazer and Mary wanted us to use Daphodill? Bunch of amateurs.

      3:37pm
      Had a good laugh at the bug reports, like this one for making Slashdot.org format properly. Whew, fortunately the guys running the web site are working around our bug and doing the work for us. Check!

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      "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
  3. Critical Bug Fix... or Feature? by stlhawkeye · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...will make the combined application more attractive to corporate users, although they're not specifically targeting Microsoft Outlook.

    ...will include fixes for the most important bugs, such as those that cause the loss of data.

    Wait... now come on, who ELSE are they targetting? Gotta be MS Outlook users. Nobody uses Oracle Corporate Time. If they want to win over MS users they ought to leave bugs in the software that cause catastrophic data loss. It's what MS users are used to.

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    1. Re:Critical Bug Fix... or Feature? by Richy_T · · Score: 4, Funny

      Absolutely. Catastrophic data loss is the only thing that keeps our users from filling up their hard-drives.

  4. going to a new Mozilla suite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coming in 2006: The new Mozilla suite (TM). With Firefox browser, and new calendar featured Thunderbird.

  5. Re:New? by Ixne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool... so now all my friends can schedule my time for me without asking, just like my boss does!

  6. Dammit. by fahrvergnugen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just when I thought we'd finally standardized on a naming convention that nobody could easily mis-spell, now I'm going to have to put up with a hojillion references to "lightening."

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    1. Re:Dammit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You mean "lighting."

  7. Ford and Pontiac? by Null537 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sunbird and Thunderbird coming together? Did somebody run a red light?

  8. Re:Why? by mshiltonj · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not include a file manager and image editor while we're at it?

    Good point. I'll add it to the list. Thanks.

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  9. Now they just need to integrate the web browser... by TheLittleJetson · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and a web content composer, and maybe a crappy IRC client to boot.