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The second team is within Mozilla Labs, and has been working on identity, contacts and related topics. One is the team at Mozilla Messaging, which produces Thunderbird and messaging innovations such as Raindrop and F1.

Mozilla has been exploring new ways to put people in control of their online communications and social interactions for a couple of years now. Baker described the consolidation this way:

In an attempt to make it more financially self-sufficient, Mozilla Messaging had been set up in 2007 in the same way, as a corporate subsidiary.īut now that's over as Mozilla centralizes its focus on communications within Mozilla Labs. At the top level, it's a nonprofit called the Mozilla Foundation, but that includes a corporate entity, Mozilla Corporation, that develops Firefox and garners the browser's search-related revenue from Google and other partners. The pace and importance of innovation in this space is enormous and growing. We post messages on social networking sites, we tweet, we get messages (often known as 'notifications') from applications, we use Web-based mail systems. One of the big changes is how much we now use the Web for messaging, communication, and social interactions. The Web has changed a lot in the last few years. Mozilla will continue to develop Thunderbird under the new organization, but Baker made it clear that the vanguard of online communications is on the Web, not standalone e-mail software. David Ascher, who has led the Mozilla Messaging group, 'now will lead a new innovation group within Mozilla Labs focused on online communications and social interactions on the Web,' said Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation, in a blog post yesterday. The Thunderbird group, called Mozilla Messaging, will become part of Mozilla Labs-a research center rather than a profit center-and lose its official name.

#MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD GROUP EMAIL SOFTWARE#

Mozilla, which had hoped its Thunderbird e-mail software would rise to financial self-sufficiency like its better-known Firefox project, unveiled a Plan B yesterday that instead increases the organization's focus on other communication technology.

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