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While I agree with this: > Work on the bloody browser, forget about the rest. There is also this: > As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating fr
by mikorym 6y ago
While I agree with this:
> Work on the bloody browser, forget about the rest.
There is also this:
> As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. [1] (January 28th 2020)
I think that proper email and calendar is what people need too. It's a big market and something you would more obviously pay for than a browser. Protonmail doesn't have a good calendar; Google doesn't have good privacy.
[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/
- komali2 6y agoWe had an issue where my mom's company had email set up through like, godaddy or some shit. And to have calendar invites work (including people sending google calendar invites, or my mom sending them invites), it was some extra charge that her boss wasn't willing to pay. I explored a bunch of possibilities, then on a whim threw Thunderbird on her machine, set up IMAP/SMTP, and tried sending her a calendar invite. It Just Worked, showed up in her Thunderbird calendar. Then she did the same for me, boom, functional calendar invite. All absolutely free of charge. I think that's a good thing, that's what Mozilla is good at doing, subverting arbitrary cost added bullshit.
- mikorym 6y agoYes, you are right, Thunderbird is the good workaround for Protonmail too. Some people are just too lazy to go beyond a web app.
- iaml 6y ago> Protonmail doesn't have a good calendar That's about to change though, beta is already out for payed users.
- mikorym 6y agoDo you have a link?