Datatude wrote:
On 2007-10-22 5:11 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
I ended up switching to Thunderbird, available from
> <http://www.mozilla.com> ... but now there is talk of it being a
> deprecated project in favor of the very popular Firefox browser
from the
> same organization.
Please, where is this discussion taking place? I can find no
references to
using Firefox as an e-mail client.
Let me rephrase -- "but now there is talk of it becoming a deprecated
project in favor of funneling the huge predominance of Mozilla
resources into the Firefox project, since the latter is used by
millions of individuals and many enterprises, and the former never
really went mainstream with the public nor with businesses."
kazar
I can't find that quote on Mozilla.com or on the net. Where is it?
Here is a 9/17/2007 post on Mitchell's (per wikipedia "*Winifred
Mitchell Baker*, better known simply as *Mitchell Baker*, is Chief
Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation>, a subsidiary
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiary> of the Mozilla Foundation
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation> that coordinates
development of the open source
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source> Mozilla
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla> Internet
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet> applications, including the
Mozilla Firefox <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox> web
browser <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser> and the Mozilla
Thunderbird <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird> email
client <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client>.) blog at Mozilla.org:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/thunderbird_why_change_things.html
September 17, 2007
Mozilla's New Focus on Thunderbird and Internet Communications
Mozilla has been investing in email since the Foundation was created. We
have a good, solid client in Thunderbird, and we have aspirations to do
more. We've spent the last few months working on how to meet those
aspirations. Many thanks to everyone who participated in the discussions
<http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/email_futures.html>.
The result is that Mozilla is launching a new effort to improve email
and internet communications. We will increase our investment and focus
on our current email client -- Thunderbird -- and on innovations in the
email and communications areas. We are doing so by creating a new
organization with this as its sole focus and committing resources to
this organization. The new organization doesn't have a name yet, so I'll
call it MailCo here. MailCo will be part of the Mozilla Foundation and
will serve the public benefit mission of the Mozilla Foundation.
(Technically, it will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla
Foundation, just like the Mozilla Corporation.)
David Ascher is joining Mozilla to lead MailCo. David has been an active
participant in the Mozilla project for many years, both in his role as
CTO of ActiveState <http://www.activestate.com/> and personally through
participation in our governance discussions. In fact it was one if
David's comments on an early draft of the Mozilla Manifesto
<http://www.mozilla.org/about/mozilla-manifesto.html> that helped
crystallize its structure. David also has deep experience in the open
source world and is a member of the board of directors of the Python
Foundation. David also brings familiarity with Mozilla technology and
the Mozilla community through years of using Mozilla technology to build
ActiveState products <http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/>,
including the new Open Komodo project. We are very fortunate to have
David join us to lead this effort.
Mozilla will provide an initial $3 million dollars in seed funding to
launch MailCo. This is expected to be spent mostly on building a small
team of people who are passionate about email and Internet
communications. As MailCo develops it and the Mozilla Foundation will
evaluate what's the best model for long-term sustainability. Mozilla may
well invest additional funds; we also hope that there are other paths
for sustainability.
We'll be setting up MailCo in the coming weeks. Part of this is forming
the team of people, part is developing a transition plan to move
Thunderbird into MailCo gracefully while supporting the Thunderbird
users. That will take some time. We 're on the path now though and
that's a great thing.
The goals for the new company are:
* Take care of Thunderbird users
* Move Thunderbird forward to provide better, deeper email solutions
* Create a better user experience for a range of Internet
communications -- how does / should email work with IM, RSS, VoIP,
SMS, site-specific email, etc?
* Spark the types of community involvement and innovation that we've
seen around web "browsing" and Firefox.
One of the things I find most exciting about the Firefox work is the way
people use Firefox to dream up what the web could be, and then go out
and so something to make it happen. We can spark the same kind of
excitement and energy level and innovation in the email/ communications
space. And when we do, Internet life will get much, much better and much
more interesting.
Help us make it happen.
--
Thanks.
Yours,
**//Charlie
//***/Charles D. Seaman/**/
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