 I have zero confidence left in Mozilla's leadership. In fact, here's a bold prediction: the Thunderbird team (operating under the wholly owned subsidiary known as MZLA) will be more profitable within 5 years than Mozilla Corporation. Yes, that same dying product Mozilla abandoned in 2012. The one the COMMUNITY kept alive and the one that is now thriving. Eventually Mozilla will approach MZLA begging them to come back... (Note that I'm saying this as someone no longer employed there.) 13 comments
@serebit @killyourfm I find it helps to think of it as your least unfavorite browser.  @killyourfm I've been wishing for years they'd just implode, and something better can rise from the ashes. It's painful to see it being run into the ground like this π @killyourfm Thunderbird is great. Nuff said really. My desktop client on all machines now and K-9 on the Android phone. The only thing that isn't super fast is where I still have to access Gmail 'because legacy'... but not for much longer. IMAP into my own mail server accounts is lightning fast but the g-behemoth... soon be gone! One of the weirdest disconnects happened a few months ago when I received a Mozilla Foundation newsletter about the evils of big corporations building unethical AI. It was a donation appeal so they could gear up to "fight" against companies like OpenAI. This doesn't seem strange until you consider that Mozilla is currently paying a ChatGPT Enterprise license for all ~1000 of its employees. And encouraging them to use it for productivity, brainstorming, & code. Yea, it didn't sit well. At all.  @tamitha Yyyyyeeea. What about Mozilla.ai? Why not include your own product in there? That was my first thought, anyway.  @killyourfm Roughly how much of their free $400 million from Google is going directly into ChatGPT?  |
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@killyourfm It's becoming difficult to separate my favorite web browser from the serial foot-shooter that develops it...