off-topic, thunderbird

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 23:45:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:16:38 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/30/thunderbird-flies-away-from-mozilla/  
>
>Hi Jim,
>
>IMO two important statements are:
>
> "Baker notes that it is not clear whether Mozilla will try to spin off
> Thunderbird as its own open-source entity, or whether it will seek a
> business partner to take over the product"
>
>It's not mentioned that Thunderbird will be discontinued at all, the
>Mozilla folks just plan another "business model".
>
> "Mozilla now views any support for Thunderbird, even the limited
> support it has been providing for the past three years, as akin to
> “paying a tax,” in Baker’s words, on top of the work those engineers
> spend building Firefox."
>
>This Ubuntu mailing list does not drop support and it still will be
>free as in beer.
>
>The box on the right side is for Ubuntu:
>
>"This package is not part of any Debian distribution." -
>https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/thunderbird
>
>Ubuntu instead provides:
 ^^^^^^
 ^^^^^^ Debian ... this should read Debian, not Ubuntu :D
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>https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/icedove
>
>"Icedove is the Thunderbird email client rebranded by Debian." -
>https://wiki.debian.org/Icedove
>
>Since I'm neither a Thunderbird, nor an Icedove user I don't care.
>However, Icedove already is a fork available for around ten years.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf
>
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