Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote:
I wonder what affect this will have on the SeaMonkey email client:
<http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird/>
<http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/>
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model>
"Mozilla is focusing a lot of its efforts towards important web and
mobile projects, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop only email
client. We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on
Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla and that the most critical
needs for the product are on-going security and stability. In fact, it
is quite possible that Thunderbird is already pretty much what its users
want and there is not a high demand for innovation in this field."
Maybe the 6 week release cycle was driving them crazy?
I am not surprised by this announcement and I think it makes sense.
Really, how far have stand-alone e-mail clients evolved in the past 10
years? Other than adopting SSL / TLS for POP3 and IMAP, there's not
much that really needs to be done to Thunderbird save for security /
bug fixes. Moving development resources towards the browser makes
sense.
- Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]
As long as they do that. But usually when something like this happens,
companies as soon as they get the words out of their mouths, two three
month down the road the application disappears. I've been burnt plenty
of times when perfectly good software get bought out, They smooze the
users saying they have nothing to worry about, before the contract is
signed, then before the ink has dried on the contract for more than 2
hours, The software disappears.
Based on this experience over the years, I trust companies about as far
as I can pitch them to keep their word.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:[email protected]
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