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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by smacktoward on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:01AM (#10655756)
And then the person who forked it gets to maintain it!

Lucky them.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by vinceguidry on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:19AM (#10655915)
No need to be so snarky, he'll have all those other people out there who love XUL to help him.
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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by nickpsecurity on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:23AM (#10655956)
He's right. Mozilla, a $200-300 million a year outfit, currently maintains their software including Firefox. It's a huge C++ application. People who code XUL in their spare time, even a bunch of them, aren't likely to make a dent in keeping parity between a Firefox fork and the main release. They'd likely have trouble even porting it.

So, a fork is a rough solution and will have maintenance issues for an app this size.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by vinceguidry on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:38AM (#10656099)
I was being facetious.
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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by nickpsecurity on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @12:54PM (#10657353)
Ah. You got me there haha.
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