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<div class="" id="magicdomid4"><span class="author-p-107">Hi, <br>
<br>
Yesterday Mitchell Baker posted on the future of Thunderbird:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/">http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/</a><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid6"><span class="author-p-107">In
summary, we've been focusing efforts towards important web and
mobile projects, such as FirefoxOS, while Thunderbird remains a
pure desktop-only email client. We have come to the conclusion
that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of
our resources given our ambitious organizational goals. The
most critical needs for the product are on-going security and
stability for our 20</span><span
class="author-g-ltd1bpflrkrkc474">+</span><span
class="author-p-107"> millions users, either individuals, SMEs
or large corporate/institutions.</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid7"><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid8"><span class="author-p-107">However,
Thunderbird is one of the very few truly free and open source
multi-platform email applications available today and we want to
defend these values. We're not "stopping" Thunderbird, but
proposing we adapt the Thunderbird release and governance model
in a way that allows both ongoing security and stability
maintenance, as well as community-driven innovation and
development for the product. </span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid9"><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid10"><span class="author-p-107">We are
opening the <a
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model">proposed
</a>plan for public discussion to individuals and organizations
interested in maintaining and advancing Thunderbird in the
future. We are looking for your feedback, comments and
suggestions to refine and adapt the plan in the best possible
way throughout the summer so we can share a final plan of action
in early September 2012. The <a
href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning">tb-planning
mailing list</a> is the preferred forum to have this
conversation. I look forward to reading you there.<br>
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Thanks,
<br>
<br>
Jb
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