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Some of you might be interested in this exchange about the nature of
finances for Thunderbird, in a comment I made in a long thread about
the problems affecting the critical Exchange Calendar addon with TB
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<p>Maybe someone with more technical knowhow on
Thunderbird software development could also comment
on <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359629">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359629</a>?</p>
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<p>In response to fthommen:</p>
<p>Adding EWS as a "supported" protocol to core
Thunderbird does not magically make the resources
appear to maintain it. This particular addon,
Exchange Calendar, is a really good example of the
problems. The work required is substantial, a
free-as-in-beer developer can enjoy working on it
for awhile, but then there is the inevitable burnout
followed by periods of poor support, which we seem
to be in the third phase of now. Personally, I
believe that something mission-critical like
Thunderbird (and critical addons such as this one)
deserve better than that if people are going to rely
on them to get real work done.</p>
<p>But this gets at the core of what people mean by
"open source" and "free software". There is always
that hope that there are lots of potentially
motivated volunteers that could be attracted, if
somehow we just do things better.</p>
<p>Personally I don't believe in that, but I am in a
minority - and I get plenty of flak for charging for
ExQuilla. (Note I am the ExQuilla author as well as
a member of the Thunderbird Council). The solution
that I think makes sense is something like a
non-profit user coop, where there would be enough
benefits to the users to pay for membership, the
code could continue open source, but somebody would
be paid to keep the lights on. We're collecting
substantial donations now, and that is helping alot,
but not enough to imagine that EWS could be added to
core Calendar and supported.</p>
<p>Looking ahead a few years, I tend to agree with
probably most of you that EWS support should be a
critical part of the maintained core. I've got a
group of volunteers I am working with (<a
href="http://caspia.org">http://caspia.org</a>)
that will work on the rewrite of both Contacts and
Calendar as a part of a next-generation Thunderbird
project, and I intend to make EWS core to that. But
that does not solve the long-term financial issues.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/rkent" class="user-mention">@rkent</a>
: I fully agree and I also want to add, that I have no
problem paying for software I critically rely on. This
plugin (even TB itself) would be an example of software
that I would be willing to pay for, as I don't want to
live w/o them any more :-)</p>
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