Mozilla tries Firefox recipe with Thunderbird
 

*Source: News.com (http://www.news.com/Mozilla+tries+Fi...tag=nefd.top)*
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Mozilla wants to reproduce the Firefox Web browser's success with Thunderbird, its open-source e-mail software.

In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation set up a corporation to run elements of the Firefox Web browser (http://www.news.com/Corporate+Mozill...3-5817655.html) operation. Now it's doing the same with Thunderbird, providing the as-yet-unnamed subsidiary with $3 million and beginning plans to significantly expand its programming staff, said Mozilla Chief Executive Mitchell Baker (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/).

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