You've been brainwashed about the "community" stuff. Mozilla _is_ a corporation. Linux is built by a corporation. Last time I checked, less than 18% of Linux patches were from independent contributors.
Everything big enough to be known by Joe average hobbyist is built by a corporation.
Let's see the community in action taking the lead when Mozilla drops the ball.
Not sure what you're implying. Mozilla stopped developing Thunderbird since 2012. I would also be curios in what corporation (singular) is developing Linux.
I'm implying that "open source-ness" is not necessarily _the_ ingredient that will save a massive abandoned project.
You need also 'drive' - and good hackers are put of by massive corporate projects. They have better things to do than clean up corporate mess.
Open source, mostly defined by the right to fork, is a prerequisite for the survival of abandoned projects. You can say that abandoned open-source projects don't necessarily survive, but for proprietary projects abandonment is a guaranteed death sentence.
I've also started to resent the word "hacker", because it sounds as some kind of social class made up of special snowflakes. If the project has value and users, then interested programmers will find a way to keep the project going and there are hundreds of projects in the Linux ecosystem that survive because of volunteers or companies scratching an itch. If there isn't interest, then surely the project might as well die. But that's a tautology.
I use TB daily - I did not ask a for a feature that did not find. But for several years it has been neglected. And the "open source community" did not step up to the plate and fix the problem.
I argue that there is no such a community that will save TB after Mozilla drops it.
> "I argue that there is no such a community that will save TB after Mozilla drops it."
Yes, I realise that was your point, but my point is what work is required? If there's no work required, then there's no need for the community to save it.
It's an email client. So long as it sends and receives email, and can be compiled for the latest OS versions, what work is needed?
The ability to show all events for the current day in the Today Pane. It only shows events at or past the current time. I've looked everywhere for an option.
Everything big enough to be known by Joe average hobbyist is built by a corporation.
Let's see the community in action taking the lead when Mozilla drops the ball.