Will Penelope be the death of Thunderbird?
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| "It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird
| and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they previously have."
| Again, more nonsense from the Mozilla folk, it just does not compute.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1650.html
So they disown Thunderbird because, according to them, Web-based mail is the
way forward, but then they take Eudora/Penelope (with lacking Linux support)
and make it Thunderbird-based. The neglect of Firefox for Linux was bad
enough.
Related:
Public Good and Mozilla
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| Before someone flames me, for-profit corporations are, by definition, run for
| profit and to enrich the value of the corporation for the share holders.
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http://www.arcanology.com/2007/09/04/public-good-and-mozilla/
Can a Public Good Survive Corporate Interest?
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| Perhaps it’s inevitable that community-driven development, maintenance, and
| support will reduce markets for proprietary software up and down all of the
| stacks. Perhaps the most successful projects will have the strong support of
| businesses.
|
| Do you want to rely on their goodwill to allow you to use, study, and
| redistribute software as you see fit? Are you willing to take the risk that
| they will encourage a healthy commons which allows you to use your data as
| you see fit?
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/can_a_public_good_survive_corp_1.html
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