Always felt like this needed to happen for long time now. I guess now better than never. Got to figure out a business model. Reselling Mullvad as Firefox VPN was a start. I feel like everything that Proton does, Firefox should be doing but with a Linux file manager application
Ah yes the move from software developer to service provider. Smells like en(shit)tification.
Lets hope they do this right unlike everyone else.
I’m cynical and already looking at forks
Swapped to waterfox a while ago. Copied the profile folder over and boom, done, no more mozilla corp in my browser.
That’s a Firefox fork, not a thunderbird fork.
They’re looking for a sustainable revenue stream because the Google subsidy is bound to dry up.
if they manage to make it an actual good product and also not host it in the US, they might even be able to pull it off
I’d need to be able to choose a non-US server too. And even then, all the major tech firms breached EU laws by later transferring data back to the US. But if I had to trust an American company Mozilla would be among the better choices.
Just be Proton without the support for fascism. Easy.
isnt the proton ceo praising trump publicly?
I really hope this doesn’t impact the client too significantly. A substantial part of why I use Thunderbird is to keep out of these “ecosystems”.
I’m sure Mozilla will run a heathy and sustainable project straight into the ground.
That’s what they do
Mozilla doesn’t run Thunderbird
