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."

Comments

Re:To be honest, Thunderbird is not up to par

[Lord Satri]

Thanks for the info! I've done some reading and you see, both at work (Thunderbird on Debian) and at home (Mail with .mac), my IMAP servers have storage limits too low for my needs. So if I get it right, IMAP can't help me. Thanks anyway! :-)

Re:To be honest, Thunderbird is not up to par

[Lord Satri]

Thanks for the info! :-) I've done some reading and you see, both at work (Thunderbird on Debian) and at home (Mail with .mac), my IMAP servers have storage limits per user too low for my needs. So if I get it right, IMAP can't help me. Thanks anyway! :-) I am not planning to run my own IMAP server yet (and I could not at work anyway!)