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posted by n1 on Wednesday December 02 2015, @09:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the focused-user-experience dept.

In this Ars Technica article, Mozilla Corporation Chair Mitchell Baker discloses the desire to drop the Thunderbird email client altogether.

"Many inside of Mozilla, including an overwhelming majority of our leadership, feel the need to be laser-focused on activities like Firefox that can have an industry-wide impact." Baker writes. "With all due respect to Thunderbird and the Thunderbird community, we have been clear for years that we do not view Thunderbird as having this sort of potential."

Thunderbird has already been demoted to second-tier status, receiving only security updates since the summer of 2012. Baker's plan would turn Thunderbird over to a community product, similar to what happened with the Mozilla Suite a decade ago.

Is Mozilla's decision to laser-focus on improving Firefox going to stop their dwindling market share? Who else, besides the submitter, is still using Thunderbird? And where will you go once Thunderbird is no longer supported?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:45PM (#270678)

    Yeah sure, right after I've rewritten Gnome and systemd. And if 24 hours per day are not sufficient to do that, I'll just do the rest during the night. Doing my actual work then easily fits into the second before midnight. </sarcasm>

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @03:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @03:16PM (#270712)

    Then why do you expect mozilla to do that for you, for free?

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @05:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @05:34PM (#270803)

      They are not doing it for free. They are paid a bunch of money, and my using their product is part of the reason they get that money.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @05:45PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @05:45PM (#270809)

        Kid, your sense of entitlement is breathtaking.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @09:33PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @09:33PM (#270944)

          It's not a sense of entitlement, its the model by which they (mozilla) gets paid and by that model they get $300M per year. And all thats being asking for is little more than leave it alone and fix some bugs.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @10:59PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @10:59PM (#270997)

            You get to ask for things when you pay them your money. As they say about Google, you are not the customer, you are the product.