Mozilla Starts Thunderbird Collaboration Project: CEO Points To SMS Functionality as Goal
by Russell Shaw
As I’ve already pointed out, today, the Mozilla Foundation announced Mozilla Messaging, a new open source initiative largely aimed at bringing greater collaborative functionality to the Firefox email counterpart known as Thunderbird.
A significantly expanded Thunderbird is pretty close to the hert of Mozilla Messaging. The newest Thunderbird will be known as Thunderbird 3.
Comments made today on the blog of Mozilla Messaging’s CEO David Ascher point to increased SMS funtionality
David writes in part (bold face is mine):
It is worthwhile considering what the right user experience could be for someone using multiple email addresses, multiple instant messaging systems, IRC, reading and writing on blogs, using VoIP, SMS, and the like. What parts of those interactions make sense to integrate, and where?
I don’t believe that stuffing all of those communication models inside of one application is the right answer. But the walled gardens that we’re faced with today aren’t the right answer either. There is room for innovation and progress here, and we need to facilitate it.
In other words, when it comes to SMS via Thunderbird- the Mozilla Foundation is thinking about it.
