Thunderbird to be separated from Mozilla

Mozilla leader Mitchell Baker has announced that the Thunderbird email client project will, eventually, be spun out of Mozilla. "Therefore I believe Thunderbird should would thrive best by separating itself from reliance on Mozilla development systems and in some cases, Mozilla technology. The current setting isn’t stable, and we should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled."

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