lowflyer

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   by lowflyer 7y ago

   Pocket was already an external product (readitlater?). Send solves a real problem people have, and it was probably easy to develop it separately. Similarly to Monitor, you don't have to touch the core product to make it. Lockwise was p
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   by lowflyer 7y ago

   XUL was used all over the place, so it takes a while to fully remove it. Thunderbird updates the underlying platform only once per year, catching up with Firefox changes in the yearly major release, while Firefox does so every few weeks.
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   by lowflyer 7y ago

   A corp has more flexibility in what it's allowed to do, compared to a US nonprofit. Maybe similar reasons why Mozilla has the Mozilla Corporation in addition to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation.
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   by lowflyer 7y ago

   To keep money streams and decision making for Firefox and Thunderbird separate?
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   by lowflyer 7y ago

   Based on this Twitter discussion, it seems necessary to update the donation. Possibly because the recipient is no longer a nonprofit (previously Mozilla Foundation), but now a corp (MZLA). https://twitter.com/mozthunderbird&