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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/5/2015 11:08 AM, Benjamin Kerensa
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAGOdq5n4i6GHyMyaMApNFDrOWmq4Cx7jJWrHB3ghPe+TLbOWOw@mail.gmail.com"
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<p dir="ltr">Looks like the press somehow got the idea that
Mozilla backpedaled on its 2012 announcement and is actively
developing TB again.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mobile.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/thunderbird-3600338/">http://mobile.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/thunderbird-3600338/</a></p>
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It's funny that Mozilla picked up on "Thunderbird lives" as
inaccurate reporting, when the most important part of the Computer
World UK blog post was in fact trying to encourage Mozilla to put
more resources into Thunderbird. This is difficult for Mozilla to
read:<br>
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"In terms of Firefox phones, Orange announced that it would be
bringing phones running Firefox OS to 13 markets in Africa and the
Middle East ... some of those phones will be sold in the US, marking
an important new stage in the Firefox OS stategy. However, Mozilla
also made an earlier <a
href="https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/02/thunderbird-usage-continues-to-grow/">announcement</a>
- not at MWC - that I think is much more important for various
reasons:
<p><em>We’re happy to report that Thunderbird usage continues to
expand."<br>
</em></p>
The fact that major voices in the blogosphere are actively
encouraging Mozilla to take Thunderbird more seriously is much more
important news here, rather than trying to parse the subtlety of
exactly how much official Mozilla support is implied by "it confirms
that Mozilla is now actively developing its standalone email client
Thunderbird." See also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@trog/forgetting-firefox-c04dba853263">https://medium.com/@trog/forgetting-firefox-c04dba853263</a>
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:rkent<br>
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