Thunderbird 的未來

最近 Mozilla 的 CEO, Mitchell Baker 在自己的部落格中，提到將來會放棄 Thunderbird 開發團隊，並提出3個 Thunderbird 死亡的方法。我看了很失望，一個 CEO 竟然想借刀殺鳥！我開了新的Blog - mozillathunderbird.blogspot.com/，紀錄 Thunderbird 接下來的討論與發展。

Well, I don't get the point why Mitchell Baker wanna open this discussion to the public in her blog, but I am rather sad to hear that through my RSS reader. Yesterday, I just suggested my girlfriend to use Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client in her office since she complained about her company SquirrelMail was a bad one.

After spending lots of time reading replies on her blog, I still cannot figure out WHY she as a CEO of the Mozilla Corporation wanna discuss this publicly. Shouldn't she discuss it with people of Mozilla Corporation and come out with better solutions?

"However, the Thunderbird effort is dwarfed by the enormous energy and community focused on the web, Firefox and the ecosystem around it" says Mitchell in her blog, what those she mean enormous energy? I do not understand all that, there is too much of imaginations. Then she says "As a result, Mozilla doesn't focus on Thunderbird as much as we do browsing and Firefox and we don't expect this to change in the foreseeable future. We are convinced that our current focus - delivering the web, mostly through browsing and related services - is the correct priority." ah ha, now I got you, you said you convinced that Mozilla doesn't focus on Thunderbird as much as Firefox, and you still won't expect this to change in the future! Firefox is the ONLY priority!

So WHY she ask us to choose Thunderbird's destiny instead of killing the pity bird herself? Maybe she should said: "We I have concluded that we should find a new, separate organizational setting for Thunderbird; one that allows the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny".

http://mozillathunderbird.blogspot.com/