Hi folks --
I wrote the following during this discussion:
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.
And others have challenged it. Let me emphasize the phrase I used:
"there is talk...."
I am sorry I cannot provide links or specific quotes because my report
of such "talk" comes out of weeks of reading and learning and research
I've been doing all over the freakin' internet on all kinds of official
project sites and then also on forums and blogs ... since any official
project page is going to tout its application as a wonderful thing to
use. It is always worth reading what the popular opinions and
conceptions are too. I can't at this point retrace my steps but there
are plenty of authors, from bloggers to humble forum participants,
making the sort of claim I referred to.
To make myself, I hope, unequivocally clear: I myself am not opining
that Thunderbird is on its way out. I am very grateful for the project,
am currently in a love/hate relationship with it but it is still
steadily growing on me, am now interested in switching to SeaMonkey, and
have begun to post some questions on the mozillazine BB in the hopes of
pulling together *accurate* information and perhaps even of contributing
back to the broader community an informational site that sports
dependable and up-to-date information. Of course much information and
opinion posted on the 'net becomes obsolete (if it was ever accurate to
begin with) so folks like me who wish to spend serious time evaluating
before adopting their critical business tools are exposed to all kinds
of ca-ca.
And apparently, based on following the quotes and links provided in this
thread (thanks Harold and Charlie!), much of what I read was indeed
ca-ca! But no need to "get your nose out of joint: -- my statement
remains true (again, "there is talk of", albeit not on "official" pages)
and I am not in the habit of speaking out of my rear quarters. I am a
tech pro (business analyst/PM/system designer/4GL developer, in that
order of predominance) and am increasingly attracted to and in
admiration of many of the OS projects including OOo and "everything
Mozilla". I try to find ways I can contribute from testing to marketing
to helping to develop clear documentation and descriptons for the
non-tech-pro public. In this spirit, I will be starting some
informational pages and project evangelism on my company's site and
bulletin board, including whatever information I am able to verify. I
would be a bad citizen and terrible "journalist" if I did not check what
is found on official project sites against what other folks are saying,
rumors, and so on, and put anything that sounds interesting or that
might be a Big Red Flag out there (such a on this thread) to see what
comes back.
Thanks again to folks who so strongly spoke up to say Tbird is not on
its way out ... your information and opinions will be put to good use
... and please don't spank me again.
;^}
kazar
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