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Kilrah
Kilrah
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Of course there is no category for general concerns, so category choice is wrong by default, sorry about that.

The recent "year in review" included this attached bit. Does that mean that the Mozilla foundation is deciding to not allocate any of their overall revenue to Thunderbird and rely solely on user donations for it? If so, why does it own/manage Thunderbird? To me the entire purpose of an entity like Mozilla managing a project like Thunderbird is like most companies, to be able to allocate extra revenue from more lucrative projects to ones that are less so. Seems that the userbase of a project you own doesn't matter, money^s somehow better allocated to stuff that nobody asked for?

Of course there is no category for general concerns, so category choice is wrong by default, sorry about that. The recent "year in review" included this attached bit. Does that mean that the Mozilla foundation is deciding to not allocate any of their overall revenue to Thunderbird and rely solely on user donations for it? If so, why does it own/manage Thunderbird? To me the entire purpose of an entity like Mozilla managing a project like Thunderbird is like most companies, to be able to allocate extra revenue from more lucrative projects to ones that are less so. Seems that the userbase of a project you own doesn't matter, money^s somehow better allocated to stuff that nobody asked for?
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Matt
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This is most certainly not the correct forum. But I guess you are new to the whole odd relationship with Mozilla. Mozilla ceased development and funding of Thunderbird around 10 years ago. in the last few years the Mozilla foundation (as opposed to the for profit Mozilla company that makes Firfox) Created a wholy owned company that employs the folk donations pay for, that way the Thunderbird project get out of some of the overheads I assume. They do not work for Mozilla and the Thunderbird project is ultimately administered by an elected council who essentially sub contract the development and maintenance of Thunderbird to Mzla (the wholly owned Mozilla subsidiary).

That is a fairly crude summary based on my understanding. I am not really sure I fully understand as Mzla now has staff on the board of the foundation. Bizarre circular management process abound in open source

See this blog from 2020 announcing the new Mzla home https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/

Kilrah
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Ugh thanks, a bit clearer but they certainly don't make things easy to understand.

After all Thunderbird's About page still shows "About Mozilla Thunderbird", "Thunderbird is designed by Mozilla"...

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