Copyleft: the magazine

For those of you who have a penchant for pre-Outlook e-mail clients, the folks over at Mozilla have a treat for you. Eudora has been resurrected from the not-so-dead and, with the blessing of Qualcomm (who owns the rights to the venerable piece of e-mail software), Mozilla has relaunched it under the code-name “Penelope”. Essentially, Penelope is Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client with a user interface that looks like Eudora. Best of all, it is all open sourced, so it will be free for all (in both the money and rights sense of the term). Of course, there are plenty of other skins out there for Thunderbird, but Eudora does have a certain late 1980’s je ne sais quoi. Qualcomm has publically stated that all future versions of Eudora will also be open source, so there’s one more open and free alternative to proprietary and buggy e-mail software (you know who you are).

(via MozillaWiki and the Washington Post)

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