Thursday, 13 September 2007

Eudora Relaunched As Open Source

Qualcomm and Mozilla have relaunched Eudora mail client as a open source version, three months after the e-mail client stopped selling commercially...

Qualcomm and Mozilla have relaunched Eudora mail client as a open source version, three months after the e-mail client stopped selling commercially.

The Mozilla Foundation released the first beta version, 8.0.0b1, of the new Eudora e-mail application. The new version of Eudora is being developed under the codename "Penelope" and the former Qualcomm team, including original developer Steve Dorner, is leading the project.

Last October, Qualcomm announced that future versions of Eudora would be based on the same technology platform as Mozilla Thunderbird and be open source.

Qualcomm said, "We currently have, in house, our first actual Beta build, called Eudora 8.0.0b1. We will probably get this posted in the next few weeks."