[Kde-pim] State of Thunderbird

[Shawn W Dunn]

On Saturday 15 February 2014 11:11:24 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday, 2014-02-15, 02:49:23, Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > But the video - the entire presentation - actually has a bit of a sad
> > tone. That guy seems to be very willing to spend more time on
> > developing Thunderbird but is simply not getting the time from Mozilla
> > HQ. They really need a future vision for Thunderbird.
> 
> Indeed. As he explained in the Q&A session, management thinks that web mail
> is the way to go, which is double unfortunate for them since the company's
> main product is a web browser.
> 
> > I hope Thunderbird itself will still exists in.. 5 years.
> 
> My guess would be yes. 5 years is probably not long enough to completely get
> rid of such a widely deployed product.
> 
> However, the part about rewriting the MIME parser in JS made me think
> whether their vision is to fold mail capabilities into Firefox at some
> point. They might even need/want something like that for Firefox OS.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin

And things come full circle.   Mozilla had Mail and Newsgroups as part of it, 
before it became Firebird(Fox) and Thunderbird......
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