On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Andrew Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > An important question that falls out from all of this is and your > original question is: which is more important? Mail user agency or > Thunderbird the product, especially if there are serious opportunity > costs related to Thunderbird?
Thanks for your context. Yes, I was sort of conflating these two concepts, though I hope the context about ecosystems might have indicated that I was more talking about mail user agency. I do believe mail (or rather messaging -- including trying to pry loose iMessage/Telegram/Hangouts/FB messenger from their respective corporate headmasters -- and maybe working with the Signal folks) is an important user agency battle. The problem with a Firefox OS app, as I see it, is that Fx OS was always a risky bet, is not available in markets where rapid adoption is even a feasible option, and even now with the b2g-droid stuff, is a pretty crappy experience on relatively common devices. Any app which is built for that environment therefore has extremely low chances of making a sizable impact. I thought Raindrop was actually an interesting approach to the problem... but at this point Thunderbird is making a relatively large impact on messaging user agency, and it seems like bad thing to cut that loose. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
