Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jul 2007 18:05 UTC, submitted by Flatline
"On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Firefox. While the Mozilla Foundation supports a number of projects, its taxable subsidiary the Mozilla Corp. is responsible for only Firefox and Thunderbird. However, it has become increasingly clear that Firefox is the priority. The resources allocated to Firefox dwarf those allocated to Thunderbird and recent projects such as the initiative to improve Mozilla support exclude Thunderbird."
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2007-03-30
I see where the Mozilla Foundation is going here and I don't love it. One of the developers said something along the lines of 'if we've got to spin off Thunderbird (stop spending resources on it) to beat IE with Firefox, then lets do it'. Beat IE. Right!
They should just be clear about the motivations here. Money. They don't want anything to do with anything other than Firefox, because Firefox is the only thing making them money. The Mozilla (Firefox) Foundation is now only concerned with gaining market share so that their sugar daddy (Google) will pay them more when their current multi-million dollar contract is up.
To which I reply: It's the Mozilla Foundation, not the Firefox Foundation. Though maybe it should be renamed to the Firefox Foundation if this is where they are taking it.
I use Firefox and Thunderbird.