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Re:Thunderbird 102 by umanwizard on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:43PM (#31922587)
Okay. Why should the Linux community care about this? It is not a business trying to sell something to as many people as possible. It’s a diverse set of people and companies each working on whatever is important to them.

If consumers want consumer-level support, they can buy a Mac. What’s the problem?

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Re:Thunderbird 102 by SkyMarshal on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:59PM (#31927577)
Because the Linux community also cares about expanding freedom- and privacy-respecting general purpose computing to as broad a user base as possible. Simplifying the user experience is a necessary, but not necessarily sufficient, requirement for that.
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by umanwizard on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:59AM (#31934420)
> Because the Linux community also cares about expanding freedom- and privacy-respecting general purpose computing to as broad a user base as possible.

This is, at most, a niche fraction of the Linux community.

Most people and companies involved with Linux care that it works for their own needs, not about abstract "software freedom" ideologies.

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