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Mozilla Creates New Internet Mail and Communications Company

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tackle-spam-along-the-way dept.

Mozilla has announced a new initiative to overhaul email and internet communications in general. The new company, MailCo, will be given $3 million in startup capital from Mozilla to start with the Thunderbird code and work from there. MailCo will be led by David Ascher of ActiveState fame and, according to him, will be a for-profit venture without the emphasis on profit.

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  1. Profit? by Eponymous+Bastard · · Score: 4, Funny

    will be a for-profit venture without the emphasis on profit.

    Quick! When's the IPO?!?

    1. Re:Profit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      1. Create New Internet Mail and Communications Company
      2. ???
      3. Don't profit much!

  2. Lost Cause by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the point? From everything I keep hearing in the news, nobody uses email anymore. If Mozilla and "MailCo" really want to make a difference, they should start writing Facebook and MySpace email clients. Remember, the internet is not about open protocols and clients -- it's about one single website acting as the singular point of contact and communication for the entire globe! And of course, when people leave MySpace for facebook, all you have to do (instead of simply continuing to email them at their existing email address), is go to facebook, sign up for another account. Add the person. Have them add you. And then make sure that you add it to the growing pile of sites you check every day, so you can keep in touch with said idiot who refuses to use email.

    1. Re:Lost Cause by Ajehals · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's currently the best well to tell everyone in a large group about some minor change in the office. No. The best way to communicate a change to an office is clearly to hold a meeting that includes all the stakeholders, all those directly effected by the change and anyone who may at some time be directly or indirectly impacted by the change, Preferably the meeting should be held off site. Email is for inviting people to that meeting (preferably by sending 3 or four emails and an .ical with the date listed.
    2. Re:Lost Cause by turbidostato · · Score: 2, Funny

      "For these reasons, I hate social networks with a passion."

      This, of course, being said on an HTTP-based site that adds absolute nothing to the NNTP protocol and paradigm it predates.

    3. Re:Lost Cause by Rich0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't forget to send reminder emails 2 weeks in advance, 1 week in advance, day of, 5 minutes before, and 10 minutes into the meeting when attendance is low.

      It isn't like that functionality would be better implemented in a calendar application or anything like that...

  3. What madness is this?! by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fool! Do you not know that profit is the antithesis of open source? Taking one dollar in profit makes you no different from Microsoft! Next you'll be hoarding your sources and throwing chairs!

    Yadda yadda yadda, etc, and so forth.

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    1. Re:What madness is this?! by gzerphey · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is Sparta?

      ::Shrugs:: Yeah, I know, I'm leaving.

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    2. Re:What madness is this?! by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 4, Funny

      Good, we were about to taser you.

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  4. Re:Integrate SpamBayes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then you probably wouldn't refer to it as v1agr8 and your wouldn't be worried about your pepper not staining up.