> They are letting Google occupy whole the internet by not creating an alternative for Gmail.
Now that statement makes absolutely no sense.
They have ~20 million users after 10-18 years (depending if you count from the original Thunderbird or the original Netscape 2.0 which added a mail client). Gmail has > 500 million accounts, let's say ~400 million users.
With 5% of the users, they're not making a difference either way.
Furthermore, it's still an apples-to-oranges comparison: I suspect at least 50% (if not 90%) of those mozilla users have at least one Gmail/GoogleApps mail account set up in their TB.
The main problem that gmail solves for most people, and which TB can't offer (being a software product rather than a service), is a reliable mail service. (I wrote that already, but you seem to have not noticed that).
> They are letting Google occupy whole the internet by not creating an alternative for Gmail.
Services available for you that are not google: fastmail.fm, hotmail.com/live.com, mail.com.
Mail clients that are available for you that are not gmail: Opera Mail, Claws, Postbox, Evolution, Outlook, Mail.app, and a whole lot more (though only Opera is really cross-platform).
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> I'm not as powerful as Mozilla.
Neither am I.
> They are letting Google occupy whole the internet by not creating an alternative for Gmail.
Now that statement makes absolutely no sense.
They have ~20 million users after 10-18 years (depending if you count from the original Thunderbird or the original Netscape 2.0 which added a mail client). Gmail has > 500 million accounts, let's say ~400 million users.
With 5% of the users, they're not making a difference either way.
Furthermore, it's still an apples-to-oranges comparison: I suspect at least 50% (if not 90%) of those mozilla users have at least one Gmail/GoogleApps mail account set up in their TB.
The main problem that gmail solves for most people, and which TB can't offer (being a software product rather than a service), is a reliable mail service. (I wrote that already, but you seem to have not noticed that).
> They are letting Google occupy whole the internet by not creating an alternative for Gmail.
Services available for you that are not google: fastmail.fm, hotmail.com/live.com, mail.com.
Mail clients that are available for you that are not gmail: Opera Mail, Claws, Postbox, Evolution, Outlook, Mail.app, and a whole lot more (though only Opera is really cross-platform).
What's the problem again?