Re: Current status of Penelope

Martin S. wrote:
In article <stevewjackson-2C60EC.15344903052007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The link recently posted here says that the Eudora importers are in sad shape, which means that the entire Penelope effort is a patchwork add-on to Thunderbird, rather than Eudora going open source on its own merit.

Exactly my thoughts. I've tried Thunderbird in the past, but, no, thanks.



Why would the owners of Eudora let it go open source? Eudora is a viable product for Windows, and presumably they have more sales for that version than for the Mac version. If they let the Mac version go open source, what's to stop someone from porting it to Windows?

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