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<font face="Arial">I once joked with my fellow workers:<br>
"We have all this fun everyday, and you want to get paid too!!"<br>
and another:<br>
"You're hungry again..Hell, you just ate yesterday, didn't you?"<br>
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Absurdity made those jokes funny (I thought)<br>
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Contributions without compensation will always lead to. well..less
contributions.<br>
Casual involvement in any venture leads to to stagnation.<br>
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Funding, and adequate compensation is vital.<br>
I would suggest a trust fund for whatever moneys are collected
from whatever means.<br>
In the care of the folks that are most closely associated with the
Thunderbird name.<br>
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It's not that I don't trust Mofo, but after all, It's they that
decided to withdraw funding<br>
Let's get the money first, then decide how to spend it.<br>
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On 10/4/2012 17:18, Kent James wrote:
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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>
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:rkent<br>
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