


In late November 2015, the Foundation announced again your desire to see the courier client standing to allow your engineers to better focus on Firefox, which runs much faster than Thunderbird. Since 2012, the development of the messaging application was more difficult. In the end, a new full-fledged entity will be created with its own financial resources, but that it will fail to the point that the foundation returns to the starting point. The then president decided to disassociate the project from the Foundation based on the SeaMonkey management mode that is hosted on the Mozilla infrastructure, but does not benefit from the financial and human resources of the Mozilla Foundation. In fact, what should be emphasized is that there has been an increase in donations (for the Thunderbird project) and staff (in human resources) to the point that possible development goals due to these moves were slowed down by the internal structure of the Mozilla Foundation.Īs of 2007, as resources from the Mozilla Foundation decreased, decisions had to be made strategic to avoid the certain death of Thunderbird. In addition, we see the possibility of increasing revenues through donations and partnerships to reinvest in the development of new products and services. The maneuver is intended to study the possibility of offering products and services that weren't possible in the context of the Mozilla Foundation. Since, until now, Thunderbird was sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation, which oversaw financial and legal issues, but the infrastructure and development of Thunderbird were separate from Mozilla and the project was developed separately. Recently, developers email client Thunderbird announced the transfer of development of the project to a separate company, MZLA Technologies Corporation, Which is a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.
