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3 Jan 2019, 09:14 PM | #1 | |
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Open-source Thunderbird getting new look, better Gmail support, encryption
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6 Jan 2019, 05:45 AM | #2 |
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If they really want Thunderbird to share Mozilla's infrastructure, they should integrate it into Firefox. They can distribute FF with and without TB.
I bet 2/3s of TB's 30MB is web-related, so it would only add 10MB to FF. Thunderbird, last updated Dec 2018. |
7 Jan 2019, 02:59 AM | #3 |
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Mozilla is not helping or funding Thunderbird development at all. Nobody remembers their statement in 2015 about "Mozilla would like to stop supporting Thunderbird, calling its continuing maintenance "a tax" on the more important work of developing Firefox."?
Thunderbird became a community lead project that got more independent over the years as they got enough donations to hire full time staff and move to their own infrastructure. Mozilla is now just a legal/financial home for Thunderbird. Basically their lawyers will help, and they'll collect any donations explicitly made for Thunderbird and pass them on to the Thunderbird Council. Unfortunately Thunderbird is still very dependent upon the Mozilla toolkit (Gecko etc.). Last edited by emoore : 7 Jan 2019 at 03:05 AM. |
9 Jan 2019, 10:00 PM | #4 |
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