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The Thunderbird project is a good example of community-supported software. By that, I mean that the project figured out how to raise funds directly from the co
by hosh 3y ago
The Thunderbird project is a good example of community-supported software.
By that, I mean that the project figured out how to raise funds directly from the community using it. This includes reporting on what they intend to do with the community as a whole, and where the money is being spent. The incentives between users and developers are aligned, and the project can be stewarded for the benefit of the community as a whole.
It is also a project large enough, visible enough, and used enough to pull that off.
- fsckboy 3y agono shade on Thunderbird, can't argue with success, but I feel like I should be in the target market for Thunderbird, but they went wobbly on me a long time ago. So long now I can't even remember what made them so distasteful but it definitely sums up as "eliminated too much UI, added too much UX" for a good old fashioned MUA that's web aware without being overkill: Seamonkey all the way! and it's also got a nice little (yes, very old school) HTML editor (that I use for deconstructing pages, not building them)