{"id":102,"date":"2007-10-06T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/thunder-noise-at-mozilla\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T14:59:09","slug":"thunder-noise-at-mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/thunder-noise-at-mozilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder noise at Mozilla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Like many other people, I was somewhat perplexed by the Summer announcement of the Mozilla Foundation that Thunderbird<\/a> would be further developed by a separate structure, a spin-off of the Mozilla Foundation.<\/p>\n

The foundation has a huge heap of money generated by Firefox (Google donates a lot of it), whereas Thunderbird generates no significant revenue. Separating structures means that the Mozilla Foundation will have to inject cash (currently $3M as seed funding) to keep the new structure running until it is self-sustaining (which probably won’t happen overnight). It also means that Thunderbird will lose some of the huge visibility associated with the Mozilla Foundation.<\/p>\n

From a strategic standpoint, I was perplexed. So I assumed that other, internal considerations went into play. Accounting, management, organizational reasons; whatever; I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Last month, the new structure (dubbed Mailco<\/em> for now) was finally announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just a few days ago, both full-time (paid) lead developers of Thunderbird announced, in<\/a> turn<\/a>, they would leave the foundation<\/a> next Friday. They will continue working on Thunderbird as (unpaid) volunteers. They didn’t explain why they were leaving, one can only assume they disagree with the new setup.<\/p>\n

So now I’m even more perplexed. Things don’t seem to bode very well for Thunderbird, at least in the immediate future.<\/p>\n

Note: from now on, my articles will be tagged either <\/em>en or <\/em>fr according to the language they’re written in, as I don’t intend to translate every article. This will hopefully make it a tiny bit easier for readers. I haven’t yet figured out a way to generate separate RSS feeds for that, though.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many other people, I was somewhat perplexed by the Summer announcement of the Mozilla Foundation that Thunderbird would be further developed by a separate structure, a spin-off of the Mozilla Foundation. The foundation has a huge heap of money generated by Firefox (Google donates a lot of it), whereas Thunderbird generates no significant revenue. … Continue reading Thunder noise at Mozilla<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signal.eu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}