Mozilla is about to stop most its in-house developers involved in the Thunderbird project, thus pulling off feature updates or bug fixes.
The irony is that Mozilla was busy promoting the launch of a new version of Thunderbird just a month ago but the developers began getting off the Thunderbird team back in January.
Mozilla’s position makes it clear that spending time innovating on a desktop email client is not a good use of resources. As much as it stinks to see a piece of software abandoned, this is probably the best thing. If the open source community still wants desktop email, they will have to get by with security updates and whatever they can cobble together on their own.
