We remain committed to creating amazing, open source technology focused on open standards, user privacy, and productive communication. Thunderbird’s focus isn’t going to change.

The move will allow the project to collect revenue through partnerships and non-charitable donations, which in turn can be used to cover the costs of new products and services.

Moving to MZLA Technologies Corporation will not only allow the Thunderbird project more flexibility and agility, but will also allow us to explore offering our users products and services that were not possible under the Mozilla Foundation.

By placing it under this new corporation, the hope is it will open new doors for Thunderbird and in turn more funding.

MZLA Technologies Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client has been rather neglected the past several years with all the focus on the Firefox web browser, but as the next step forward for this mail/RSS client is now placing it under the newly-formed MZLA Technologies Corporation.

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