Comment 98 for bug 222208

(In reply to Flex from comment #81)
> (In reply to clemens from comment #79)
> > 11 years of not resolving this bug? Just close it then and be a man about it.
>
> It's a shame.
> According to the annual report of Mozilla, they spent 340 Mio $ for software
> development in 2012 and 2013 and did not pay one single permanent programmer
> for Thunderbird:
> https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Financials_2013.pdf

- They should start accepting donations (crowdsourcing?) (esp. from professionals and companies whose employees are relying on Thunderbird) solely for Thunderbird development.

- They should never ever contemplate and discuss adding ads or anything related to ads as a means for fundraising again.

- They should add annual (or so) tooltips (wikipedia style) to point out that fundraising started to finance further development. This is required in my opinion to raise awareness that software development and maintenance costs money. (If you want "free", go to Google & co. and trade-in your privacy, have fun.)