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Qualcomm, the makers of Eudora, have made a press release announcing that Eudora is going to be made open source.

Interesting. I think this is awesome news and hopefully it will help spread the adoption of Eudora (a program I have been using since approximately 1994). It will be based on the Thunderbird code. I hope that they can keep the look, feel, and useability of the current Eudora when they make this switch. I have tried Thunderbird, and it just reminds me of Outlook in how it operates.

The first half of 2007 is the anticipated release schedule, and I know I will be watching out for that.

I especially like one of the quotes in the release:

“Using the Mozilla Thunderbird technology platform as a basis for future versions of Eudora will provide some key infrastructure that the existing versions lacked, such as a cross-platform code base and a world-class display engine. Making it open source will bring more developers to bear on Eudora than ever before.”

This is an excellent way to leverage open source software to open up new markets. I also like that they are getting away from IE as the rendering engine :)