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Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client

Posted by timothy on from the sometimes-it-hits-the-fan dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla will be announcing next week that they will effectively be taking away resources from Thunderbird's development. Mozilla believes it's better for the developers behind the open-source e-mail client to work on other projects, i.e. Firefox OS. They claim they will not be outright stopping Thunderbird." You can also read the letter at pastebin.

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  1. They might as well kick all the developers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And tell them to go find something else to work on. Firefox is officially trash now, never used thunderbird (but I don't know anyone else that does either so whatever) and I know I for wont be touching firefox os after seeing how bad the browser platform has gotten in the last couple years.

  2. Re:Not all of us want web mail only! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Paranoid much?

    Web mail is the safer thing for 99.9% of users. They don't have to worry about backing up their local mail, or having a virus delete it. It's there from whatever machine they are using, at home, on the go, at the office, whatever, it's all the same. When their computer dies and they replace it, they can just start up again right where they left off.

    Local mail died for a reason. Technology changes. If you don't want to keep up, that's fine, have fun on your VT-100 with mailx. Everyone else moved on, because it's better.

  3. Re:Other options? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's the beauty of Open Source. Fix it your damn self you lazy freeloader.

    See you in 5 minutes.