Qualcomm on Wednesday joined up with the Mozilla Foundation to announce it is transitioning Eudora into an open source e-mail client that will be based upon Thunderbird. In turn, all future versions of Eudora will be free and Qualcomm will discontinue the current paid client. Although it may seem like Eudora is simply abandoning its e-mail software, which has a small but strong following of loyal users, the company claims the Thunderbird-based client will retain "Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements".
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Member since:2005-07-08
Had you read the article...
Qualcomm on Wednesday joined up with the Mozilla Foundation to announce it is transitioning Eudora into an open source e-mail client that will be based upon Thunderbird. In turn, all future versions of Eudora will be free and Qualcomm will discontinue the current paid client.
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It will be open source.
Further more, it's even an official mozilla project, that will accept 3rd party contributions.
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope
From the project entry at the mozilla wiki: "The "Penelope" project's intention is to join the EudoraŽ user experience with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora that is open source and based on mozilla and Thunderbird. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it."
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2006-09-01
i wonder if Qualcomm is going to hand over some open source goodies in the form of enhanced functionality in Thunderbird. Cross your fingers that this deal isn't a one way street.