Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo

Found on Techcrunch on Tuesday, 01 December 2015
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“I believe Thunderbird should would thrive best by separating itself from reliance on Mozilla development systems and in some cases, Mozilla technology,” Baker wrote in her open memo, posted on Mozilla’s public governance forum.

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.

Looks like Chromezilla Mozilla burns all the bridges. If someone takes over Thunderbird and continues the free and open source client, this decision might actually be the best. Chromefox Firefox isn't the lightweight browser it once used to be and just tries to turn into an embarrassing copy of Chrome. Sure, people switch more and more to webmail, but if you truly want control of your email, nothing beats having a local copy.