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On 10/4/2012 1:36 PM, Axel wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:506DF352.6080101@googlemail.com" type="cite">As
long as management is not sorted out, I think it is rather
pointless talking about distributing moneys...</blockquote>
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But I think that Mozilla's position is that the management has been
sorted out, and the management team is the list of mostly current or
ex Mozilla staff people that are the Thunderbird module owners who I
listed earlier.<br>
<br>
I'd like to ask a little forgiveness here, I feel like I am just
sniping at people instead of giving meaningful responses. If I might
summarize my position in a short response instead of sniping, it
would be this:<br>
<br>
I don't feel like that management structure, or the philosophy of
"money cannot be used to hire or contract additional developers" is
the best way forward, but I don't feel like my position is broadly
supported by key contributors or Mozilla. I find that enormously
frustrating. What <b><i>is</i></b> the best way forward is an
aggressive approach to monetization that is used to fund further
development and other support activities, with the objective of
moving Thunderbird forward in various directions.<br>
<br>
So where do we spend the money? Doing what we have been doing, and
more. For that discussion to move forward we need to have a
reasonable hope of raising of the order of $1,000,000 per year, and
I think that is what people seriously doubt is possible. But I
personally have a hard time getting excited about an alternate plan
that asks for me to volunteer large amounts of time for the
foreseeable future - yet others are supposedly (or hopefully)
willing to do so, which puts me in an awkward, apparently minority
position.<br>
<br>
:rkent<br>
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