Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by komali2 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:09PM
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We had an issue where my mom's company had email set up through like, godaddy or some shit. And to have calendar invites work (including people sending google calendar invites, or my mom sending them invites), it was some extra charge that her boss wasn't willing to pay. I explored a bunch of possibilities, then on a whim threw Thunderbird on her machine, set up IMAP/SMTP, and tried sending her a calendar invite. It Just Worked, showed up in her Thunderbird calendar. Then she did the same for me, boom, functional calendar invite.
All absolutely free of charge.
I think that's a good thing, that's what Mozilla is good at doing, subverting arbitrary cost added bullshit.
Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by mikorym on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:47AM
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Yes, you are right, Thunderbird is the good workaround for Protonmail too. Some people are just too lazy to go beyond a web app.
Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by iaml on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:39PM
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> Protonmail doesn't have a good calendar
That's about to change though, beta is already out for payed users.
Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by mikorym on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:48AM
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Do you have a link?
> Work on the bloody browser, forget about the rest.
There is also this:
> As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation. [1] (January 28th 2020)
I think that proper email and calendar is what people need too. It's a big market and something you would more obviously pay for than a browser. Protonmail doesn't have a good calendar; Google doesn't have good privacy.
[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/