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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05-10-12 4:43 , Axel wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Od: "Magnus Melin" <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi"><mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi></a>
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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<pre wrap="">Exactly!
-Magnus
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<pre wrap="">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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I would certainly agree with this.<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
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This also seems to follow logically. (Although, I would modify it
to say that someone from Mozilla Corporation could lead it, if they
were doing it as an unpaid contributor.)<br>
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At the moment it feels like we are just in "waiting" mode...<br>
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I think we can stop waiting, and start discussing things whenever
you're ready. ;)<br>
(More seriously, I think this discussion is moving things forward,
and I'm glad to see it happening.)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Blake.<br>
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Blake Winton UX Engineer
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