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Thunderbird in Crisis?

Posted by Zonk on from the film-at-eleven dept.

Elektroschock writes "The two core developers of Thunderbird have left Mozilla. Scott McGregor made a brief statement: 'I wanted to let the Thunderbird community know that Friday October 12th will be my last day as an employee of the Mozilla Corporation.' Meanwhile, David Bienvenu blogged: 'Just wanted to let everyone know that my last day at The Mozilla Corporation will be Oct. 12. I intend to stay involved with Thunderbird... I've enjoyed working at Mozilla a lot, and I wish Mozilla Co and the new Mail Co all the best.' A few month ago Mozilla management considered abandoning their second product and setting up a special corporation just for the mail client. Scott was more or less supportive. David joined in. While Sunbird just released a new version no appropriate resources were dedicated to the missing component. And while Thunderbird became the most used Linux mail client it has been abandoned by Mozilla for 'popularity reasons'. Both messages from David and Scott do not sound as if the founders will play any role in the Thunderbird Mail Corporation. What happened to Mozilla? Is it a case of pauperization through donations?"

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  1. Evolution by WarJolt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm stuck using Exchange. :-(

    I use evolution on Linux.

    I hate the exchange web stuff. I use g-mail for person stuff.

    Thunderbird is not something I've ever used and I'm not going to miss it.

  2. No, they aren't. by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Most "open source" organizations are not corporations at all, but simply collaborations among individuals. Some large-scale open-source projects have gone (or rarely, started) commercial, but not most, by any means.

  3. MOD PARENT UP. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MOD PARENT UP. Very Interesting: "Outlook Express' issues have tarnished the fact that Outlook proper is actually a very good, secure, and competent email client."

  4. Re:is webmail to blame by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On the other hand, POP and IMAP are two of the worst protocols ever invented and most every client implementation FAILS on such simple things as downloading the small messages before the large ones.

    If they prefetch messages at all.

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  5. OFFTOPIC: Your sig. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Shouldn't you update your sig to encourage everyone to use Amazon's cross platform, completely DRM free service?

    Much better than iTunes - your non-PC-savvy friends will be able to confidently buy any track from Amazon, instead of being confused by the mingling of DRM-encumbered & DRM-free tracks on iTunes (and its cheaper to boot).

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  6. Chandler? by jasno · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Remember Chandler? Anyone use it yet? Any thoughts?

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