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Don't think this means Mozilla is now putting resources to develop K-9.

Mozilla halted development of Thunderbird 10 years ago (2012) and it has been community run ever since.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/6/3142046/mozilla-halt-furth...

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> In turn Thunderbird will ensure the app is developed further. As a first step Thunderbird hired the current K-9 Mail maintainer, cketti (coincidentally, also the author of this blog post ). Hopefully, more will follow soon.

I mean they are putting resources toward it by hiring the main dev which is a good start.

The highlight was about Mozilla the org not being involved. The Thunderbird org is definitely putting resources into this, not Mozilla.

I thought Mozilla still owned and thus funded Thunderbird. Someone must be ensuring that employees who work for the Thunderbird project are being payed even if it is a mostly community ran project.

The donation page still takes me to a Mozilla branded donation page which makes me think they are putting some resources into the project even if it isn't as fully funded as most would like.

The donations they receive via that page go directly to Thunderbird is my understanding. There was some chatter a few years back where I guess Thunderbird had some restructuring done so they could have better funding, I forget the specifics I remember discussing it here on HN though.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22170786

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