Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I still do not understand why mozilla keeps two horses running on the email > race track. The Penelope beta version is from 8-31-2007 but it's future is > as unknown as Thunderbird's. Penelope is actually funded and sponsored by Qualcomm, and not Mozilla. It is hosted by Mozilla. The original author of Eudora, a Qualcomm employee for many years, has been given leave by his employer to write a new program that does not contain any Qualcomm proprietary information in it, with the hope and expectation that his new program will be something that Eudora users can move to, at which point Qualcomm will feel OK about dropping Eudora. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_%28e-mail_client%29 The Penelope project was almost certainly slowed down by having its underlying platform (Thunderbird) get restructured.