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Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android by selcuka on Monday June 13, 2022 @08:23PM (#31733359)
It's an acqui-hire. From the announcement:

> And cketti [lead dev] has already joined the full-time Thunderbird staff, bringing along his valuable expertise and experience with mobile platforms. [...] To accomplish that, we’ll devote finances and development time to continually improving K-9 Mail.

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Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android by wolverine876 on Monday June 13, 2022 @08:30PM (#31733417)
Where does it say it's an acquistion?

Acqui-hires generally discard the acquired organization's product; where does it say Thunderbird is doing that? It looks like they are embracing it.

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Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android by 3np on Monday June 13, 2022 @08:44PM (#31733495)
The distinction should be made on if the IP is transferred or not. What the acquirer actually does with that IP post-acquisition is orthogonal.

There's no indication of IP transfer so it seems like this is not technically an acqui-hire, but not for the reason you're stating.

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