The first theme in the comments to the Thunderbird and mail post I want to address is the idea that this decision is somehow related to Google, Google products or Google revenue. I want to be as clear as possible about the complete lack of Google involvement.
I have no idea if Google thinks the Thunderbird announcement is a good idea, bad idea, irrelevant or if they even know of it.
To be more specific:
- Google and Google products had nothing to do with this decision.
- We did not ask Google about Thunderbird product planning, Thunderbird revenue, gmail product planning or gmail revenue.
- We did not ask Google’s opinion.
- Google’s plans for gmail — whatever they are, and they are unknown to me — are irrelevant to this decision.