Mozilla Likely to Stop Development on Thunderbird

This seems sudden but based on a leaked email from the top brass at Mozilla it would appear that internal development of the popular email client, Thunderbird will stop.  Of course this saddens me because I am a loyal Thunderbird user but, I can understand the reasons behind the decision.

Just a month after the release of the latest version 13 of Thunderbird, however, a leaked email on Friday apparently forced Mozilla to admit that it's putting the brakes on internal Thunderbird development.

"Once again we've been asking the question: is Thunderbird a likely source of innovation and of leadership in today's Internet life? Or is Thunderbird already pretty much what its users want and mostly needs some on-going maintenance?" wrote Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation, in a blog post on Friday.

Thing is I've been running an older version of Thunderbird for years and thus far have been turned off of the newer editions due to the lackluster UI changes.  The fact of the matter is, I like my email a certain way and when they change things I get all Hulk up in here and ragequit an email to Mozilla and complain.

Of course my actions do nothing but fuels the fires and reinforce the reasons behind the stop in development.  It makes me feel better at least   With any luck Thunderbird will continue to run on future versions of Windows or maybe another group will pick up the project. 

Only the Mayans know the truth.

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