Mozilla may create separate Thunderbird division
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 26, 2007 at 1:56am
The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate organization to take control of its Thunderbird e-mail application, allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox web browser, reports the IDG News Service.
In a blog posting Wednesday, Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, called for a new structure to allow “the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny” and asked the open-source community for input.
Baker said Mozilla’s Thunderbird effort “is dwarfed” by the energy it spends on the Firebox browser and the ecosystem around it.
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