Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/30/thunderbird-flies-away-from-mozilla
Apart from the fact that Mozilla had cut off most development support in 2012, Thunderbird has become a somewhat anachronistic product.
Hitting the market in 2004, at a time when many consumers were still wedded to desktop clients to access email services, Thunderbird got off to a flying start, with 1 million downloads in its first 10 days of life. But in the years following, many switched to mobile apps and web-based clients, and Thunderbird’s popularity waned.
Mozilla and the wider Thunderbird community have not provided any updates on how many Thunderbird users there are today, or how many downloads of the client, or what kind of usage the application sees.
Donc :
1. je suis anachronique
2. compter les downloads sans prendre en compte le fait qu’il est dans toutes les distributions d’Ubuntu, ça va faire un certain manque dans le comptage.