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Just donated. Have been using Thunderbird for years. I once donated to Wikipedia - and they have billions I heard - so might as well donate to another important

Just donated. Have been using Thunderbird for years. I once donated to Wikipedia - and they have billions I heard - so might as well donate to another important piece of software for my digital life. Now that I read the comments I find out Mozilla might have enough money and a CEO taking in millions. Any recommendations for a good email client on Linux? Just as a backup for now...

yorwba 6mo ago
Mozilla Corporation may have enough money, but they don't develop Thunderbird. If you used the donation form on this page, you didn't donate to Mozilla Corporation, but to the company developing Thunderbird. So all is fine.
- swiftcoder 6mo ago
  Mozilla Corporation (for-profit Firefox management org) doesn't take donations, and are mostly funded by selling search placement to Google. The Mozilla Foundation (non-profit parent org) does take donations. Which they could presumably funnel some of down to thunderbird development, but they chose not to, and now have this other for-profit management org fundraising Thunderbird separately...
gostsamo 6mo ago
Mozilla and Mozla are two different corporations though both under the mozilla foundation.
EbNar 6mo ago
I'm just using Evolution. Switched from Thunderbird a few weeks ago. So far, so good.
- rambambram 6mo ago
  Yeah, I noticed Evolution as a standard install on some distros as well. I might look into it, thanks.
glenstein 6mo ago
>I once donated to Wikipedia - and they have billions I heard I had no idea one way or the other, but if I'm reading this right [1] they are around $150MM currently for their endowment. Mozilla, meanwhile is actually around $1.2 billion and counting. But I think that makes sense for both, Wiki has the strongest donation drive in the world, and Mozilla is much more exposed to risk and in need of its firewall. I don't think it changes anything, they're both good donation targets and Thunderbird is separately financed anyway so they still benefit from the $$ but I was surprised to see Wiki with the lower endowment. 1. https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFY2526_Endowment_Annual_Plan.pdf&page=3 https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFY...
mghackerlady 6mo ago
The reason Wikipedia has so much is that the end goal is for it to be self sustaining through interest iirc

yorwba 6mo ago

Mozilla Corporation may have enough money, but they don't develop Thunderbird. If you used the donation form on this page, you didn't donate to Mozilla Corporation, but to the company developing Thunderbird. So all is fine.

swiftcoder 6mo ago
Mozilla Corporation (for-profit Firefox management org) doesn't take donations, and are mostly funded by selling search placement to Google. The Mozilla Foundation (non-profit parent org) does take donations. Which they could presumably funnel some of down to thunderbird development, but they chose not to, and now have this other for-profit management org fundraising Thunderbird separately...

gostsamo 6mo ago

Mozilla and Mozla are two different corporations though both under the mozilla foundation.

EbNar 6mo ago

I'm just using Evolution. Switched from Thunderbird a few weeks ago. So far, so good.

rambambram 6mo ago
Yeah, I noticed Evolution as a standard install on some distros as well. I might look into it, thanks.

glenstein 6mo ago

>I once donated to Wikipedia - and they have billions I heard I had no idea one way or the other, but if I'm reading this right [1] they are around $150MM currently for their endowment. Mozilla, meanwhile is actually around $1.2 billion and counting. But I think that makes sense for both, Wiki has the strongest donation drive in the world, and Mozilla is much more exposed to risk and in need of its firewall. I don't think it changes anything, they're both good donation targets and Thunderbird is separately financed anyway so they still benefit from the $$ but I was surprised to see Wiki with the lower endowment. 1. https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFY2526_Endowment_Annual_Plan.pdf&page=3 https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFY...

mghackerlady 6mo ago

The reason Wikipedia has so much is that the end goal is for it to be self sustaining through interest iirc