Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 20:09 UTC
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:2005-08-28
It looks like they're going to be adding code. As for giving any back, that probably depends on the terms of the Mozilla Public License whether or not they have to.
Of course, if they're hoping to get help from the Thunderbird community like they say, they better WANT to.
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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.
(emphasis added)
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."