Eudora E-mail Program Reborn as Open Source

[ronjor]

On August 31 the Mozilla Foundation started distributing a test open-source version of Eudora, which was developed in the late 1980s as one of the first e-mail programs by a student at the University of Illinois.

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[ccsito]

That's nice to hear about Eudora. I wonder if they will resurrect WordStar?

[the Tester]

"Mozilla has said it plans on developing both Eudora and Thunderbird."
That's interesting.

[MikeBCda]

Originally Posted by the Tester

"Mozilla has said it plans on developing both Eudora and Thunderbird."
That's interesting.

That threw me too, since they're essentially "competitive" products even if now from the same source. But I guess there's quite a big difference in look-and-feel between them, and Mozilla decided that keeping and developing both was the only way to hang on to satisfied users.

I'm glad to see, though, that the "third party" Qualcomm was trying to decide on (or maybe just hadn't announced yet) wound up being Mozilla.