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Eudora reborn as open-source application – LinuxWorld, 09/10/07: The open-source version of Eudora is now available for download, three months after the e-mail client stopped selling commercially.
Eudora was a pioneering e-mail program developed by Steve Dorner in 1988 as a part of his studies at the University of Illinois. Qualcomm acquired Eudora in 1991, and during the next eight years the e-mail client enjoyed a strong following among its loyal user base.
However, it gradually lost out to the creeping domination of Microsoft’s Outlook, and in October 2006 Qualcomm donated Eudora to the open-source community, namely the Mozilla Foundation.
Qualcomm ceased selling Eudora commercially on May 1.
But the e-mail package has now risen from a technical grave, after the Mozilla Foundation released the first beta version, 8.0.0b1, of the revised Eudora e-mail application.
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IBM beats Microsoft over the head with its own code – LinuxWorld, 09/10/07: IBM’s iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA) as a starting point.
IBM piles on Microsoft’s open document defeat – LinuxWorld, 09/10/07: IBM, a vocal critic of Office Open XML standardization, says it will commit 35 veteran programmers to the sparse staff now working on developing the OpenOffice.org specification, which incorporates the Open Document Format.
IBM joins OpenOffice.org to widen its reach – LinuxWorld, 09/10/07: IBM has gotten so much from the OpenOffice.org office suite to enhance its own products that the company has decided to finally give back in a big way: It’s joining the open-source project and will contribute code, developers and other resources for free.
Patent lawsuit a lose-lose for NetApp, Sun – LinuxWorld, 09/07/07: Law suits sparked by patent infringement claims are risky ventures. They hardly ever make either party look good, and they are anything but sure bets as revenue producers – unless you’re an attorney.
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LinuxWorld Community, 09/11/07: Michael Robertson is playing the “Lindows” game again. Microsoft sued that Michael Robertson venture, and ended up paying Lindows it $20 million to change its name to Linspire. Is a new Michael Robertson venture, “ajaxWindows,” angling for another quick $20 million?
