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Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation
An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a 'new separate organizational setting' as the Mozilla Foundation focuses more and more on Mozilla Firefox. Citing a blog post by Chief Lizard Wrangler Mitchell Baker, MozillaZine outlines the three possibilities for Thunderbird that are being considered: 'one is to create a entirely new non-profit, which would offer maximum independence for Thunderbird but is organisationally complex. A second option is to create a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation for Thunderbird, which would keep the Mozilla Foundation involved but may mean that Thunderbird continues to be neglected in favour of Firefox. A final option is to recast Thunderbird as community project, similar to SeaMonkey, and set up a small independent services and consulting company to continue development. However, there are concerns over how the Thunderbird product, project and company would interact'. Lead Thunderbird developer Scott MacGregor favours the third option."
You get nothing for coming first in life. Just ask Netscape...
Why not split off Firefox instead, since it's getting most of the attention? Maybe then the Mozilla project can go back to making good software.
Just like closed-source, for-profit orgs. OSS is really growing up! :-)
Holy triple negative batman!
No, email has become an essential function for informing me how I can use {herbal, synthetic, generic} products to expand my {penis, breasts, volume}.
Here in germany I allways say:
"Wer zuspät kommt, bestraft das Leben,
wer zu früh kommt, bestraft die Frau."
in English:
"He, who commes too late, will be punished by Life.
He, who commes too early, will be punished by his wife"
we need an "-1 Plain wrong" moderation option!