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Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-be-to-the-gods-for-that dept.

Petr Krcmar writes "Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1 was released last month. A few months before, two main developers left the project and development was moved from the Mozilla Corporation to the Mozilla Messaging, the new subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. We had the opportunity to ask some questions to David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging CEO. The interview is about present and future of Thunderbird and about related projects like SeaMonkey, Spicebird and Mozilla Calendar."

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  1. Vowels by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Petr Krcmar

    Son, you ain't got quite enough vowels in your name.

    1. Re:Vowels by ozbird · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's a little known fact that the Czechs invented SMS txt msgs.

  2. Mozilla calendar? by moderatorrater · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't they come up with a better name than that? Something that combines a place or condition with an animal name? Something like "streetcornerzebra" or "bridgetroll"?

    Come on, Mozilla, get your act together.

    1. Re:Mozilla calendar? by jlebrech · · Score: 2, Funny

      How about SolarBadger!! It's a solar based calendar system, hence solar. and badger because I want it to.

    2. Re:Mozilla calendar? by oldspewey · · Score: 2, Funny

      SundialFerret?

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    3. Re:Mozilla calendar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Regretfully, SolarBadger would be plagued by mushroom and snake bugs.

    4. Re:Mozilla calendar? by moderatorrater · · Score: 4, Funny

      You mean shadowmushroon and watersnake, their techno music player and wiki software?

  3. Hmmmm by aeskdar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook Neither does Microsoft's EULA
  4. Pfff... by mark72005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what I will do if it doesn't duplicate all Outlook's amazing features like

    -Being slower than sh#^ starting up or closing down
    -Always telling me I didn't close it properly when I did, and making me sit through some shadowy scanning procedure that doesn't seem to do anything.
    -Slow performance when sorting
    -Slow performance when searching
    -Slow to initially render the Outlook today page
    -Resource pig for the simple functionality you get

    How will I ever survive without something JUST LIKE OUTLOOK?

    1. Re:Pfff... by Wiseazz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Especially when Lotus Notes already does all those things... and does them better!

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  5. Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who do I have to blow to get plain text mail made the default?

    Me, for a start!

  6. Re:Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 Screenshot by Errtu76 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pah, i wouldn't use it. Have you seen how blurry certain parts of the screen are? It's totally useless in its current form.

  7. Re:PIM as Social Network Tool? Yes! by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, wait, so you're saying if we merged this PIM thing with social networking, we just might actually get someone laid?!

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  8. What language interview questions translated? by ClayJar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Before creation of organization project left two main Thunderbird developers. How this situation remarks project and how are these developers involved in Thunderbird now?
    That simply *must* be a mechanical translation. Not even *Yoda* speaks in that manner.
  9. Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really think that you should only send carrige return in your mail if you want to start a new paragraph. Sending an entire paragraph as a single line is good, because then my mail program, can wrap the lines acording to my window size.

    That's being very thoughtless and is bad netiquette. How is he supposed to print the e-mail out looking nice on his dot matrix printer if you do this?

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  10. In other news: by cool-RR · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nuclear Reactor Designers Don't Want To Duplicate Chernobyl.