I am aware of that, however, Microsoft has also listed it under a subset of their protocols that have been exposed under their open source program. We are investigating the legality of implementing a client library, especially to make sure that it fits with the spirit of Ubuntu before diving in.
If we discover it may only be done after paying royalties to Microsoft, we will investigate our options, including developing the libraries as closed source, and distributing the binaries only (which we would prefer to avoid). This option is unappealing, since it fights the spirit of Ubuntu, but might be a necessary evil to ensure that the ubuntu phone is seen as a real contender in the market. --- MYLES HATHCOCK Co-Founder / Chief of Development Veridian Enterprises, LLC my...@veridianenterprises.com On 2013-02-18 13:13, Valerio Valerio wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Myles Hathcock <my...@veridianenterprises.com> wrote: > >> 1) It does, but does a relatively shoddy job of staying organized, and is heavily tied to the GObject system. This is generally a decent design, but we have elected (in the prevalence of Qt) to design the exchange backend using C++ and the new features introduced in TR 2011. It will, however, not use any Qt libraries until it is ready to be tied to the uPhone UI. >> >> 2) It's not a small task at all, however we love the uPhone, and its worth it to us to invest the time and effort into an enterprise quality exchange client. >> >> --- >> >> MYLES HATHCOCK >> >> Co-Founder / Chief of Development >> >> Veridian Enterprises, LLC >> >> my...@veridianenterprises.com >> >> >> >> On 2013-02-18 11:42, Bruno Girin wrote: >> >>> On 18/02/13 17:15, Myles Hathcock wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ubuntu Phone Devs, I'm investigating the market for exchange / activesync support in the uPhone email application. As far as I've been able to see, there are currently no plans to support these protocols, nor are there easily portable open libraries. >>> >>> Evolution has Exchange support [1] in the evolution-exchange package >>> [2]. It doesn't seem to be available in Quantal and I don't know how >>> good it is. Could some of it be leveraged? >>> >>>> I would very much like to see the uPhone succeed on a large scale, and I think at least providing corporate email access to owners of this phone would help a lot. Assuming it has not been done yet, I will be implementing the EAS protocol and adding it as a plug in to the core email application (and also as a Thunderbird plugin eventually). >>> >>> I agree with that thought but it doesn't seem like a small task! > > Yes, quite big task, also don't forget that Microsoft has the protocol pretty much patented[1], is not easy to go around that as well, if you want to ship it in phones you need to pay the royalties, not sure how it would be if you offer it as separated app/app store, you will probably get in troubles if it becomes popular. > > [1] - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Legal/IntellectualProperty/IPLicensing/Programs/ExchangeActiveSyncProtocol.aspx [5] > > Best regards, > > -- > Valério Valério > >>> Bruno >>> >>> [1] http://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.1/exchange-configure.html.en [1] >>> [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/evolution-exchange [2] >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone [3] >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone [3] >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp [4] Links: ------ [1] http://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.1/exchange-configure.html.en [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/evolution-exchange [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone [4] https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp [5] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Legal/IntellectualProperty/IPLicensing/Programs/ExchangeActiveSyncProtocol.aspx
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