Tom Metro wrote:
When an application subsumes the functionality of an entirely separate application, and you don't even notice, you might be suffering from feature bloat.
I'm going to play Devil's advocate on this. Thunderbird started life as the Mail, Address Book and Composer components of the Netscape suite. Which is to say that it started out as everything /except/ the browser which became Firefox. Thunderbird has always been a two-way or multi-way communications point. That's why it made sense adding LDAP, NNTP, RSS, Atom and IRC (in SeaMonkey) to its supported protocols. IM is a widely used communications tool. It makes sense to add the IM protocols to the suite.
It's not bloat. It's an attempt to maintain relevance in a rapidly changing world.
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