Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

#1

Post by ehamberg » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 5:54 PM UTC

Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away
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Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

#2

Post by dotcoma » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

What are you left with, Panos? Their source code you can't use anymore, and your code which is now worthless? You're left with nothing, in other words? You are not just going to accept this, right? Do something! :)

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by Scene_Cast2 » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 6:58 PM UTC

The IP situation is interesting. Was there any code re-use? Does the code you wrote belong to Sparrow? If the answer is "no" to both, you may be able to release it.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by gue5t » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:04 PM UTC

Open-source it. If they're really abandoning the product but actually care about improving the status of e-mail clients they won't send you a C&D.

If they don't care about that as much as they care about preventing unauthorized use of their code, then everyone loses. But you can't know what'll happen unless you take action.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by dvhh » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:09 PM UTC

sound unlikely, a proper sparrow port would use the etpan lib (there are windows port apparently), instead of starting the email protocol almost from scratch as the author suggest.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by esbwhat » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:11 PM UTC

gue5t wrote: post #4

Open-source it. If they're really abandoning the product but actually care about improving the status of e-mail clients they won't send you a C&D. If they don't care about that as much as they care about preventing unauthorized use of their code, then everyone loses. But you can't know what'll happen unless you take action.

Agreed! Maybe it can take a life on it's own. No use shedding tears over what's done, but open sourcing it would at least mean there is a net gain for the world from it all.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by everydaypanos » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:14 PM UTC

dotcoma wrote: post #2

What are you left with, Panos? Their source code you can't use anymore, and your code which is now worthless? You're left with nothing, in other words? You are not just going to accept this, right? Do something! :)

:)

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by everydaypanos » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:20 PM UTC

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #3

The IP situation is interesting. Was there any code re-use? Does the code you wrote belong to Sparrow? If the answer is "no" to both, you may be able to release it.

No code was reused. Just Jean-Marc's artwork. Plan was to port LibEtPan in Windows and replace current email engine during Beta, but.. you know.. dead.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by statictype » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:23 PM UTC

Since hearing that Thunderbird is going to start collecting dust, I've been looking for a decent Windows client and was wishing Sparrow worked on Windows. So this makes me even more sad. I wish Google would do the right thing and open-source it like they did with Etherpad.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by seltzered_ » Sat, Jul 21, 2012, 7:25 PM UTC

dude. kickstarter. go.

Sparrow is one of the few reasons I stick with using a mac, and am somewhat fearful of taking another job using windows again. I even tried having outlook configured in a mode to look more sparrow-ish to realize it didn't work without a real "sparrow" experience.