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Qualcomm and Mozilla to make an open-source Eudora

[Posted October 11, 2006 by corbet]

Remember the Eudora mail client? Qualcomm has announced that it will be working with Mozilla to make an open-source version of Eudora based on Thunderbird. "Future versions of Eudora will be free and open source, while retaining Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements. QUALCOMM and Mozilla will each participate in, and continue to foster development communities based around the open source Mozilla project, with a view to enhancing the capabilities and ease of use of both Eudora and Thunderbird."

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Posted Oct 11, 2006 13:48 UTC (Wed) by cpm (subscriber, #3554) [Link]

Like a lot of folks, I suppose Eudora was the first windows pop client
that I became comfortable with. Was an interesting and nice break from
pine in a shell.

There were so many odd 'Eudora-isms' that when i finally rid my
company of it several years back, mysteriously, in my mixed
Windows/OSX/Linux environment, moving everyone to moz-mail
and tbird got rid of *ALL* my email client issues.

I wouldn't welcome all those Eudora features back into my life
again, no, not at all.

FAQ?

Posted Oct 11, 2006 15:11 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

The first question from the Eudora FAQ:

What is QUALCOMM announcing today?

Do those pundits even know what FAQ is? It's "frequently asked questions". Can you imagine the above question to be asked frequently?

And here's my question:

Why don't you open your code instead of slapping your trademark on the code written by other people?

This question is not in the Eudora FAQ, of course.