Quoting John Crisp via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): [snip much-appreciated picture of behind-the-scenes management folderol at Thunderbird Project:]
> The problem is decent alternatives are not great [...] Just in case people have lost track of this, the long-term nub of the problem is: revenue model. Firefox brought in money. Thunderbird did not. When all is said and done, Mozilla Foundation is an appendage of Mozilla, Inc., which as a for-profit corporation is bound to a depressing pursuit of quarterly earnings targets as a primary objective. From the corporate perspective, Thunderbird development resources are deadweight, a dispensible community sponsorship that earns nothing. I continue to like projects that are limited in feature scope enough to not live or die by corporate underwriting. E.g., mutt continues to be maintainable by a small group of motivated developers. When I want it to be graphical, I run it in an xterm. ;-> -- Cheers, Rick Moen "The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is r...@linuxmafia.com you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger club." McQ! (4x80) -- @drankturpentine (Dennis Detwiller) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
