The CEO of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker has written in her blog about the future of Thunderbird (Check the blog of Scott too). We all knew that Mozilla neglected Thunderbird for a long time and the updates were slow to come. Mozilla is now thinking of spinning Thunderbird as a new non profit organization or a subsidiary of Mozilla or as a community project much like SeaMonkey is.
She has written about the positives and negatives of each option. Everyone in Mozilla and Thunderbird (and ofcourse the users) feel that Thunderbird didn’t get enough attention since everyone’s concentration and effort were directed towards Firefox (and more in it’s fight against IE?).
It’s high time they make a right decision. The future of Thunderbird is not very bright due to web based emails like GMail (for regular users) and big companies still sticking with Outlook (Microsoft Exchange) and ofcourse Mozilla putting less effort in marketing Thunderbird. Thunderbird needs to innovate better and get the changes out faster in order to stay competitive. I hope they make a wise decision and keep this nice product alive.
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