In the news today: Eudora, the e-mail client that has been around since the late 1980’s, will soon be based on the Mozilla Thunderbird source and released as an open-source project.
The reason behind this is that Qualcomm, the owner of Eudora, has been maintaining the software in spite of its being a wireless technology company. It wants to keep the program alive, but maintaining it takes more resources than it wants to devote.
Ten years ago, companies seemed to let software projects die, leaving users to use stagnant code, or switch to other programs. Now they are released to to wild, so to speak, where they have the opportunity to be revitalized and flourish. Not a bad way to go!
from Mozilla Dot Org
