Ryan's Journal

"Discussion?" Tell you what, go search for anything dealing with the future of Thunderbird after July 25, 2007, or before today, September 18, 2007, and see if it resembles any type of discussion. Better yet, see if you can find anything at all. Is it appropriate to leave everybody in the dark while The Mozilla Foundation decides behind closed doors what to do?

I'm not asking for a seat at the table to make big choices about direction, but actual companies tend to at least inform their voting shareholders when something large is going down; sometimes they actually get to vote on it, too. When the minority stake shareholders like me, who are personally invested in the product and who have invested in and given some small bit back to the community only find out after the fact, it doesn't speak well of the community. A mailing list? An RSS feed? It's a core-Internet project living on the Internet, yet the "rest of us" must be content to be in the dark.

I like Thunderbird. I'm invested in it, and I don't like to see an investment fail. That's why I'll stay on as a user and hope this new corporate form will let in the light despite its shadowy inception.

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