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Just a users thoughts.<br>
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How about something along the lines of the SeaMonkey Council, and a
separate thunderbird-project.org site, which is still accessible
(but hard to find) through the link in "See even more awesome
software based on Mozilla technologies" near the bottom of the
Products page at mozilla.org?<br>
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I'm sure users would eventually bookmark thunderbird-project.org.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/14/2012 05:05 AM, Gervase Markham
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<pre wrap="">On 12/11/12 17:28, Kent James wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Unless I hear a strong statement otherwise, I am going to consider
Standard8's "Therefore, paid-for development should not be considered"
and your "efforts surrounding Thunderbird which generate income ... will
need to be organizationally independent of Mozilla-the-organization " as
definitive. We need a not-Mozilla organization.
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I'm sadly not in a position to make definitive statements in this area
(JB may be able to), but if the question is: "Is Mozilla going to go
back to employing significant numbers of people full-time to work on
Thunderbird, effectively reversing the recent decision?", I would be
deeply surprised if the answer was anything but No.
So if people are interested in creating a not-Mozilla organization which
provides support and services for Thunderbird, and employs people to
work on the code, then that would be great. The thorny question is, of
course: if they shipped their own version rather than sometime directly
from Mozilla (e.g. if there were patches they needed which had not been
upstreamed), could it be called Thunderbird? That's a tough question
with a lot of grey, but I can see that the potential founders of such an
organization would want some clarity on it before pressing forward.
Gerv
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