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[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thunderbird is built by a for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, it just isn’t the Mozilla Corporation.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird Community.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird

No. It's not.

Edit: sort of is, under a subsidiary called MZLA but still seems more independent from mozilla and their shenanigans (I hope)

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Wiki truth

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What’s the sentence before that one?

Here, read the latest news: https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-moves-to-monetize-thunderbird-transfers-project-to-new-subsidiary/

Never wondered why Thunderbird donations aren’t tax deductible?

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OK... Now what actionable thing can I do with this info? Use outlook? What good would that do?

I want firefox to exist to create a good browser and thunderbird to exist for a good email client. Is that too much to ask?

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t think you need to do anything different. Sometimes when I learn new things I say “oh, interesting.”

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair nuff. Sometimes it's just overwhelming getting information of something I can't do anything by. Like oh great another thing that's going wrong rn... Woo hoo

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could switch to KMail, which is developed by the KDE community, organised in KDE e.V., an actual registered non-profit.
Or Evolution, developed by the GNOME project, organised in the GNOME foundation, another registered non-profit.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That said, GNOME has close ties to IMB/RedHat, so use that info however you see fit.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Every big open source project now has ties to one corporation or another.
Linux isn't a hobby project of a few hackers anymore.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Yup, but some, like Linux, has a good assortment of corporate backers, instead of one massive org.

Pick your poison I guess, but at the end of the day, as long as it's FOSS, it can be forked if necessary.