<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Axel Grude <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:axel.grude@gmail.com" target="_blank">axel.grude@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Re: Directions for Thunderbird legal and financial home<br>
</span><span class=""><b>To:</b> Tb-planning <br>
<b>From: </b>R Kent James<br>
</span><b>Sent: </b>Monday, 13/07/2015 22:57:55 22:57 GMT ST +0100
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<blockquote type="cite">Repeating my
previous scaling from LibreOffice, think $150,000 per year. (To
put this in perspective, the bandwidth costs using the AWS CDN
network to update approximately 25,000,000 users using a full 40
MB update are around $35,000. We might find ourselves limiting
updates only because we cannot afford the bandwidth. $150,000 is a
small amount of income for a business with our scale.).</blockquote>
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This worries me. If only we could charge 10 cents per download; that
would resolve some of the bandwidth worries and possibly provide
extra funding... Or charge a dollar for a year round downloads ;-)
there must be a way to ease users into a "subscription" model,
however cheap it may be.<br>
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Axel</font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Even Postbox knows subscription models are not sustainable :) personally I do not think TB is going to be able to raise the money it thinks it can. To put things in perspective Geary backed by Gnome and Yorba could not raise $100k as a one-time fundraiser. $35k for CDN? What about website? What about build servers? Who is going to work on l10n if Thunderbird splits off from Mozilla and becomes its own entity? <br><br>There are many questions needing answers and personally I think nagging users for donations will make us lose users heck they might go to Postbox where they get some guaranteed support and newer features. <br><br><br></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Benjamin Kerensa<br><br></div></div></div>
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