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."

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Re:I hope Thnderbird sticks around

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I use Thnderbird at home. Every day @ work using Outlook reminds me why I prefer Thunderbird.

I use Thunderbird at home. Every day @ work using Outlook reminds me why I prefer Outlook. Thunderbird is rubbish, really. Even the littlest things are shabby, like it's insistence on spawning from one window to nine.

Fortunately, it doesn't really matter, since email @ work is alive and kicking, but email outside the corporate environment is pretty much dead as far as I'm concerned anyway.