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No, the funds are Thunderbird's alone, originating from donations. Mozilla Foundation is just their fiscal home. Thunderbird Council went shopping for a new fis
by buovjaga 9y ago
No, the funds are Thunderbird's alone, originating from donations. Mozilla Foundation is just their fiscal home. Thunderbird Council went shopping for a new fiscal home for a while, even considering The Document Foundation, but decided to stay with MoFo: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-home/ https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-fu...
- lucideer 9y agoGood to know. The post really isn't too transparent about this...
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoIsn't it Upwork are hiring a programmer to work a contract for Thunderbird? Incidentally there was a post that was heavily critical of Upwork but is now "dead", it included points like: >Then they take a 2.75% cut from the client, a 20% cut from the freelancer // It seemed, factual, apposite, and informed; definitely strange it was killed.
- buovjaga 9y ago> Isn't it Upwork are hiring a programmer to work a contract for Thunderbird? The Mozilla Foundation just forces Thunderbird to use Upwork as the channel to hire people. I think it's obvious that if Thunderbird Council was able to decide, they would never use Upwork.