Thunderbird to be separated from Mozilla
Mozilla leader Mitchell Baker has announced that the Thunderbird email
client project
will, eventually, be spun out of Mozilla. "Therefore I believe Thunderbird should would thrive best by
separating itself from reliance on Mozilla development systems and in
some cases, Mozilla technology. The current setting isn’t stable, and we
should start actively looking into how we can transition in an orderly
way to a future where Thunderbird and Firefox are un-coupled."