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<pre wrap="">Od: "Magnus Melin" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi"><mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi></a>
Komu: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org"><tb-planning@mozilla.org></a>
Dátum: 05.10.2012 08:13
Predmet: Re: Generating revenue for TB and "What do we need money for"
On 4.10.2012 23:27, Kent James wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 10/4/2012 1:17 PM, Mike Conley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">the money cannot be used to hire or contract additional developers.
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<pre wrap="">That seems to pretty severely handicap the future of Thunderbird, as we are
prevented from doing with money that we raise ourselves precisely what Mozilla
used to do but pulled the funding for.
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Exactly!
-Magnus
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Then the money should be collected outside of Mozilla and then we can do anything with it and Mozilla can't interfere :)</pre>
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Kent and me discussed this approach briefly with Mitchel on MozCamp,
but it is tricky... My personal feeling is that Tb needs an
"Outside" business leader in order to bring it forward. <br>
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In my personal opinion, with the stated mission (Focus on Fx OS),
having somebody from Mozilla Internal leading it is not in
Thunderbird's best interest. At the moment it feels like we are just
in "waiting" mode...<br>
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