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<p>Also offering and supporting thunderbird, offers people choice.</p>
<p>Thudnerbrd is a proven platform, many people use thunder bird, a
desktop email, client is expected with a desktop, many legacy
business use it, it's also probably a better-to-see for
responsible reasons thing to do than gmail. It probably
satisfies, more general use cases than the gmail application.</p>
<p>Thunderbird it`s open source and free to use and mod with local
file, afaik, unlike the advertisement driven google, it`s probably
more robust. and impartial to which services you use. And that
peopel are used to using it, and dont want to run the excersises
of change, without there being proven benefits, absolutely, i have
no reason to want for change right now. if a user has been using
thunderbird for their email client for 15 years, why would you
expect a distro to suddenly want to force them to change their
happy well served, regular routine, by having removed the programs
from a distro? and inpalce some application which proably doesnt
support thier use cases as well. that would probbly be a
diservice for people, no? especially if user have nothing to gain
personally, but exercise for some interest party? People use
local copy email clients, even on mobile devices, and dont
necessarily want to be involved with google, for any large variety
of reasons.. so i guess.</p>
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<p>I agree with another preson, who said gmail as wonderfuly when it
premiered, as a cloud based web app, suddenly there was a big
service provider offering, (was it a gig?) lots of cloud storage
compared to other popular service providers. and yes there is a
gmail client. but does it support cross platform to say, windows
xp? Google goes where told said to go by handshaking partners,
imo.<br>
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<p>Also, thunderbird doesn't collect and sell any information from
you, as far as i know,. because thunder bird has no information
to give, afaik, except which ip`s originally downloaded an exe at
some point. So you might ask, whats more important to the distro
management group, pushing an agenda, or making less hassle for
users? even if there i a duplicate application, if it`s causing
less work for a good deal of users, continue to support it, i say,
and make it easy to serve users, or cost users by removing it, i
would suspect. But of course, i don`t draw up plans for whats
included in distro`sm so i cant say for certain, and I'm not sure
why your asking in this channel...<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hello all, I
have been using ubuntu for many years now and I still don't
know what is the use of thunderbird.It duplicates my gmail
account,is slow,and seems complicated.I have been trying once
more to use it and it just seems to be a duplication of gmail
(or any other mail service).I'm probably missing something
here but after many bouts with it I still don't get it.I am
wondering why it is always on all the new distros? I suppose
some people like it, I don't.This is one of the rare things
that bug me about ubuntu, because I would never use any other
OS.Thanks.<br>
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