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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/12/2016 12:25 PM, Jim wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Dave
Koelmeyer <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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</span>Also, businesses using Google for Work at scale
have presumably already<br>
been sold on the pros of using a webmail client, so I
don't know how<br>
attractive having a desktop client that works with Gmail
actually would<br>
be here to those organisations. Implementing missing
standards support<br>
(e.g. CardDAV) for those businesses not using Gmail would
be a better<br>
use of resources, in my opinion.<br>
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<div>I have very little interest in helping Thunderbird to
become a better enterprise email client. To my knowledge,
no business has ever provided actual resources to
Thunderbird (aside from Mozilla, of course), and the only
non-Mozilla people who have ever contributed were doing so
in their own free time. I'm happy to be proven wrong, of
course.<br>
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LDAP code was largely written by Sun and maybe Red Hat as well. I
think Red Hat was largely responsible for some of the S/MIME stuff,
and the vCard code has a license block that mentions Apple,
AT&T, IBM, and Siemens.<br>
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Joshua Cranmer
Thunderbird and DXR developer
Source code archæologist</pre>
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