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Re:Mozilla Thunderbolt by CivBase on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:31AM (#47794764)
I'm perfectly fine with Mozilla working on other things as long as those things are profitable or at least self-funded. As long as they are not leeching donated resources from Firefox or Thunderbird, I don't see a problem. However, I wish I had some kind of assurance that the money I donate to Mozilla would go to Firefox and not some other project like this.
Re:Mozilla Thunderbolt by rothific on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:45AM (#47795030)
Thunderbolt was funded from a grant, not donations.

https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbolt/blob/main/docs/fa...

Re:Mozilla Thunderbolt by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:25PM (#47795777)
I think the rest of that line is really kind of important:

> Thunderbolt is funded through a grant from Mozilla.

Is there any way that that's not taking dollars out of the same organization that's funding Firefox or thunderbird?

Re:Mozilla Thunderbolt by drzaiusx11 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:35AM (#47816713)
No