This morning I mentioned in my More Troublesome Thunderbird News post that there not being announcements from Mitchell Baker or even David Ascher. Earlier today David Ascher dropped by and left this comment and invitation: Hi — i did blog about it this morning on my own blog — I don’t have much to say about Scott & David’s departure, but I have lots to say about MailCo and thunderbird. see http://ascher.ca/blog/2007/10/06/open-letter-to-the-thunderbird-community/ As I mention in that blog, I’m keen to hear from anyone in the Thunderbird community.

Earlier this week Scott McGregor announced he was leaving Mozilla Corp.  Now comes the  announcement David Bienvenu, the only other Thunderbird Developer is also leaving on October 12th:  Just wanted to let everyone know that my last day at The Mozilla Corporation will be Oct. 12. I intend to stay involved with Thunderbird and to continue on as a module owner. I’ve enjoyed working at Mozilla a lot, and I wish Mozilla Co and the new Mail Co all the best. As Percy points out in his article, Thunderbird is after all an open-source project.  This means anyone can work…