Episode 820 transcript

FLOSS-820 Jonathan: Hey folks, this week I talk with Ryan Sipes about Thunderbird, it's history, it's future, and more. You don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 820, recorded Tuesday, February the 4th. Please don't add A. I. Clippy to Thunderbird. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly, that's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, This is Jonathan Bennett. We've got something really fun today. We're talking with Ryan Sipes about Thunderbird. That's the email client that you, you should be using. And in fact, a lot of us are using. And it's, it's, it's pretty good. It is part of the Mozilla suite and you know, one of the things I've talked about for a while, I was told by a little birdie that it almost became part of the LibreOffice suite. And so I'm going to ask about that. Cause I'm really curious about how that story went down. But I am going to go ahead and bring Ryan on. Mr. Ryan Sipes. Well, welcome to the show. It's so good to have you. Ryan: It's good to be here. Thank you for having me. Jonathan: Yeah, Ryan and I've been chatting before the before the recording started and we talked about a couple of different thi…