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K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android

K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android

Posted Jun 13, 2022 18:00 UTC (Mon) by tome (subscriber, #3171)
Parent article: K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android

Didn't Mozilla want to wash its hands of Thunderbird just a few years ago, only to reverse the decision in the face of widespread protestations? My but things have changed, it seems.

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K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android

Posted Jun 13, 2022 18:43 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (3 responses)

At the peak of their marketing-droid-led blunders they threw away more or less everything that couldn't easily be rebranded "Firefox"; Thunderbird and Seamonkey, shutting down their self-hosted IRC network and firing the remaining talent (the ones that didn't walk out or get forced out via a PIP after the Verizon TV show adver-trojan scandal).

The plan seems to be to hollow out the company to maximise short-term CEO profit (which everyone outside the reality distortion field's been trying to warn of for a while) and get outside FOSS devs to do spec work on their own time for peanuts. That worked out great for AOL with the original Mozilla.

K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android

Posted Jun 14, 2022 8:14 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (2 responses)

There are still many talented people at Mozilla.

Shutting down irc.mozilla.org was a great move. Matrix is much better.

K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android

Posted Jun 21, 2022 19:42 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Matrix is much better, but Mozilla had to be dragged kicking and screaming into that instead of moving its support operations to *Discord*.

K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android

Posted Jun 23, 2022 2:28 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

Matrix is better for Matrix users (although I see a lot of them complain on IRC, so maybe even that is debatable).


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