[LINK] Eudora email moves to open source

[Adam Todd]

At 10:14 AM 14/11/2006, Peter Batchelor wrote:
>Linkers might be interested in the following...
>
>http://www.eudora.com/
>Eudora email moves to open source development and delivers final 
>commercial version -- Eudora 7.1 for Windows and 6.2.4 for Mac OSX.
>
>The open source version of Eudora® is targeted to be released during the 
>first half of calendar year 2007 and will be free of charge. Once the open 
>source version of Eudora is released, QUALCOMM will cease to sell Eudora 
>commercially.

Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.  To be honest I have no problems 
with the "sponsorship" mode.  Never clicked through, so it probably doesn't 
do anything useful and it's probably a massive traffic load on Qualcomm 
servers.

Qualcomm has always been really good with user feedback, including new 
features and things like that.  I think many might feel they conform to the 
overall practices of open source, but haven't really had a need to release 
the code before.

Perhaps they have reached the "ultimate" limit?

Guess we'll see.