Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
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Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#2"Eudora was specifically designed with the idea that standards are a key to successful adoption.
Indeed, the rapid acceptance of the Internet is largely due to the standardization process.
Published standards are what allow applications from multiple sources to cooperate with each
other. Without standards organizations would only be able to use their own applications
together, and not those from outside. Also, by allowing diversity of implementations you
achieve a much more robust software ecosystem."
- From the "Windows Eudora Architecture.pdf" in the distribution
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#3In 1999-2001 when I was doing dialup tech support, running into a customer with Eudora was a dream compared to the nightmare of basically any other contemporary mail client around: Outlook and Outlook Express. EarthLink even made their own abomination of a mail client called Total Access, IIRC it could import and export Eudora dbs.
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#4It's under an open source license too:
"The transfer agreement allows CHM to publish the code under the very liberal BSD open source license, which means that anyone can use it for either personal or commercial purposes."
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#5To paraphrase Hoare, Eudora was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on its successors. And now we can all help stamp out flying e's.
Edit: CHM has a survey for past/current Eudora users: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/eudora-poll1
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#6I applaud Qualcomm for donating all trademarks and copyrights too, which means literally anyone can recompile it and still call it "Eudora".
Unfortunately Eudora is basically three completely different codebases (Windows, Mac, and a rebranded Thunderbird for Linux). I guess only the Windows one is likely to ever be revived.
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#7Here's the actual Computer History Museum article and links to source: http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-emai...
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#8Wonder why they chose not to host on GitHub...
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#9"Boolean butch; // don't call pete drag handlers in PantyTrack"
Always assume that one day, the world will see your code.
Re: Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
#10I applaud Qualcomm for donating all trademarks and copyrights too, which means literally anyone can recompile it and still call it "Eudora". Unfortunately Eudora is basically three completely different codebases (Windows, Mac, and a rebranded Thunderbird for Linux). I guess only the Windows one is likely to ever be revived.
“The license does NOT allow you to use any of the trademarks or domain names related to Eudora, including Eudora™, www.eudora.com, and www.eudora.org.” — http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-emai...