Archive for October 17th, 2007

“I just really want to know what’s going on with Thunderbird”

Someone called Rod asked a bunch of questions in reaction to a recent post:

Your developers left. Where did they go? How are they going to continue to participate in Thunderbird development? Who is going to be taking their place as the lead developers? If you don’t know yet, what’s your action plan for figuring that [...]

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CalDAV good times ahead?

While I wasn’t looking, a bunch of people have been making real progress in standards-based calendaring interop. I’ve been talking to a few of them, and it’s fascinating to see momentum building in that arena. There are clients getting mature (Thunderbird with Lightning, Apple’s iCal in Leopard, Chandler Desktop, Evolution, probably others I’m [...]

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Mail.app as competition or inspiration?

The list of features that Apple highlights as coming in the next revision of Leopard is interesting.
They all sound pretty good to me, and I suspect they’ll make what’s already a good mail client better. While they’re all doable in Thunderbird, it’s clear that we are behind when it comes to the state of [...]

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