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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. Before anyone hates by porkThreeWays · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before anyone even brings this up, the reason they usually do for-profit instead of not-for-profit is there is a crapload more bureaucracy associated with a not-for-profit and they'll end up spending a lot of money dealing with it.

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