QUALCOMM and Mozilla Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program

Submitted by tbuitenh on Thu, 2006-10-12 09:06.

QUALCOMM and Mozilla Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program - QUALCOMM Incorporated and the Mozilla Foundation, today announced that future versions of EudoraÂ® will be based upon the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla ThunderbirdÂ™ email program. Future versions of Eudora will be free and open source, while retaining Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements. [GNUs]

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Well that is good news. It

Submitted by libervisco on Thu, 2006-10-12 16:47.

Well that is good news. It is always good news to see another program freed, even if it is something for which there already are quite a few choices. We have evolution, thunderbird, sylpheed etc. etc. Smiling

If the "unique feature set" is truly unique than that's great.

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I think by now most of the

Submitted by tbuitenh on Fri, 2006-10-13 09:07.

I think by now most of the Eudora users are people who got used to it and don't want to use anything else. A free Eudora will make the switch to a completely free system easier for them. And of course it might even mean some extra users of this program. There probably will be a linux version (it's gecko based after all), and I certainly would like to try it.

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