French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3

fredboboss sends news about Mozilla's email client Thunderbird 3, whose release we noted last week. "Thunderbird 3 contains code from the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook. The French government is beginning to move to other open source software, including Linux instead of Windows and OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office. Thunderbird 3 used some of the code from TrustedBird, a generalized and co-branded version of Thunderbird with security extensions built by the French military."

It's over... it's all over

[Anonymous Coward]

Thunderbird just surrendered to Outlook on my computer. Now it's even helping Outlook import old messages.

I love this joke

[Anonymous Coward]

For sale: WW II era French rifle. Never used, only dropped once.

The French military's contribution..

[HockeyPuck]

...helps Firefox run...

Ba-dum Tish...

I'll be here all week, try the lamb.

That explains...

[Anonymous Coward]

why it keeps quitting unexpectedly whenever I receive emails from Germany ;-).

Continuing the naming tradition

[Rising Ape]

TraceMonkey, SeaMonkey... SurrenderMonkey?

More secure than Outlook?

[magamiako1]

I fail to see how anything on their list of features provides any more security over what can be obtained with a properly configured Exchange/Outlook system.

everyone hates the French

[Swampash]

They imposed ridiculous penalties on Germany after WW1 and allowed Germany to remilitarize, giving birth to Nazi Germany.

They defeated the British Army in the Revolutionary War and provided financial aid to the Continental Army, giving birth to the USA.

Basically the French are directly responsible for the two most hated nations in living memory.

Damn you!

[WiiVault]

Excuse me. Are you suggesting the French give up easy? Alright you win.

Re:It's over... it's all over

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like some frog blew all her mod points on you all.

Re:Uranian Head Cheese

[Bob_Who]

(squinting eyes) .....looks like poop! (sniffing it) ....Smells like poop! (chewing) ....tastes like poop! (righteous glory)....Good thing I didn't Step in It!

Re:How About a Plain Text Mode?

[Anonymous Coward]

Aye, if was able to answer the Gatekeeper's log on riddle, solve the three puzzles of the URL, and navigate his way through the stormy interwebs to Slashdot, he hath surely proven himself one of the elite minds of our time.

Re:It means a lot when Defense systems move over

[TapeCutter]

"trying to harden something that's very soft to start with"

French women have exceptional skills in that department.

Choice of Commandos

[dbIII]

I've never heard of TrustedBird before this, but it seems a WHOLE lot more secure than Outlook is.

That's not saying much.
Britney Spears underwear is a lot more secure than Outlook.

Jules & Vincent Vega

[breon.halling]

Jules: What do they call Thunderbird?
Vincent Vega: Thunderbird's Thunderbird, but they call it "le Thunderbird".
Jules: "Le Thunderbird"! Ha ha ha ha! What do they call Outlook?"
Vincent Vega: I dunno, I didn't use Windows.

Re:Choice of Commandos

[peater]

I would think they are both equally secure. Pretty much anything gets through with little or no control over active-xxx elements.

Re:Continuing the naming tradition

[Ihmhi]

CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey

FTFY

Re:It's over... it's all over

[LordAndrewSama]

I'm british you insensitive clo- where'd he go?

Re:It means a lot when Defense systems move over

[Eunuchswear]

Kudos to them for open sourcing it.

Shh, don't tell the BSD license fans, the GPL works as intended.

Re:I love this joke

[Atrox666]

Do you know why the Champs d'Elyse is lined with trees?
The German army hates marching in the sun.

Re:I love this joke

[jggimi]

In the Great War, new technologies in small arms was brought to the field: The American Springfield, the British Enfield, the French Lebel, and the German Mauser. Many of these arms, and the internal technologies and engineering used, were seminal. One can find arms made today with designs that are rooted directly in features from some of these weapons.

Among collectors of WWI memorabilia, it is generally considered that the Springfield is the superior target rifle, the Mauser the superior hunting rifle, the Enfield the superior battle rifle, and the Lebel the superior lamp stand.