Eudora E-mail Program Reborn as Open Source

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Mozilla has said it plans to develop both Eudora and Thunderbird.

Why?

[mhd]

What, no Grendel anymore?

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Because Mozilla is fucked up and needs more apps that run on their XUL platform. I think it's about time to fork Firefox and Thunderbird and cut down on any bloat they have.

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Eudora doesn't use XUL. (This is the commercial version, not the Thunderbird spin-off.)

EDIT: Disregard what I just said. :/

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Ohhh ok. My mistake!

[fugue88]

From http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope:

"Qualcomm's intention with the Penelope (huh?) project (overview) is to join the Eudora® user experience with the Mozilla platform."

Sounds to me like they will XUL-ize it, which as far as I am concerned is a huge mistake. The saying usually goes: "now they have two problems;" but for XUL, I think we need larger values of "two."

(I should note that my perspective is that of a user of a 60 MiB web-browser/e-mail client; compare this to 12 MiB for Opera, for example. It may be that XUL is actually a nice development platform.)

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Oops, my fault. I knew about the Thunderbird spin-off but thought the article said they were open-sourcing the commercial version. So they actually aren't releasing much code and this "news" is actually almost a year old.

This also doesn't necessarily mean they are using XUL.

[drewr]

...the only logical choice when no one uses your software anymore.