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Mozzarella Foundation dumps Thunderbird

Find yourself a new coop

By Nick Farrell: Friday 27 July 2007, 09:57
THE MOZZARELLA Foundation has decided to spin off its email program Thunderbird so that its developers can concentrate on Firefox.

Mozzarella Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Thunderchicken is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" which in English means that it might be thrown out of the organisation.

Baker said that there are three possible options for Thunderbudgie including setting up a new non-profit organisation to run it.

The second option is to create a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation for Thunderbird, which would keep the Mozilla Foundation involved. The last option is to recast Thunderbird as community project, similar to SeaMonkey.

The reason for the change is that the Mozzarella Foundation wants to allocate its limited resources to Firebadger. If the organisation is too closely involved with Thunderduck it will be starved of resources Baker said.

[daniboy79]

with all dem buzzard antics, i smell parody

[Spazosaurus]

LMAO @ Thunderchicken

[disciple]

with all dem buzzard antics, i smell parody

 nah.. is real
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22235


tha's just inquirer's style..

On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Mozilla Firefox.

While the Mozilla Foundation supports a number of projects, its taxable subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation is responsible for only Firefox and Thunderbird. However, it has become increasingly clear that Firefox is the priority. The resources allocated to Firefox dwarf those allocated to Thunderbird and recent projects such as the initiative to improve Mozilla support exclude Thunderbird.

Mitchell outlines three possible options for a new organisational structure for Thunderbird. One is to create a entirely new non-profit, which would offer maximum independence for Thunderbird but is organisationally complex. A second option is to create a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation for Thunderbird, which would keep the Mozilla Foundation involved but may mean that Thunderbird continues to be neglected in favour of Firefox. A final option is to recast Thunderbird as community project, similar to SeaMonkey, and set up a small independent services and consulting company to continue development. However, there are concerns over how the Thunderbird product, project and company would