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Walled gardens might be OK for plants, but not for email. Did you know our average donation in 2023 so far is $17.44? For the price of a bouquet, you can donate to help liberate email from corporate walled gardens, and help privacy bloom. 🌻 Rest assured, ANY donation amount makes a difference! mzla.link/eoy23_masto

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Nachiket Vartak

That is interesting. Your average donation for 2023 is about 33% of lifetime licenses of some proprietary email software that have several features and a better UX than Thunderbird. This means that if @thunderbird only makes pragmatic sense if it is free or reaches feature parity instantly and maintains it for 3 years compared to alternatives.
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@nic @vartak We don't have our final 2023 numbers yet, but this comment in our 2022 report shows how many donors we had and how many were overwhelmingly small donors! blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.
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@jamesmcguinness This reply from our PM, Ryan, explains why Thunderbird being financially independent (hence donor driven) yet keeping ties with Mozilla is the best choice for the project. mastodon.social/@ryanleesipes/…

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2023-12-08 22:28:50


@jwz @virtulis we (the project) considered spinning out, and Mozilla was fine with that. But the help we get versus being on our own makes it worthwhile to be related.

Finally, each entity does what benefits it. Thunderbird history has shown that the Corporation spending money on Thunderbird isn't beneficial to it. Which makes sense. We (the Thunderbird community and MZLA employees) have found a way to exist and grow with (so far) complete freedom. As I see it, that's a win.


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