27/09/02 Michelle Steiner : >To carbonize emailer, one must have the source code, make the changes >in that code, and recompile it. There are many copyright and licensing >problems to overcome in order to do that.
Not to mention Emailer source code supposedly disappeared as previously mentionned here. Now that I think of it, I get suspicious. Those licensing problems might be a bit dirty. I don't believe a company like Apple or Claris would let such a piece of exclusive software vanish. At least without a good reason to do so (did anybody here really believe MS "lost" the Windows code requested by the court?) Hmm... doesn't Outlook Express strangely run some Emailer AppleScripts with little modification, thanks to the former Emailer AppleScript developper now at MS? Wasn't Outlook Express previously dubbed "the Emailer 3 that never was" on this list? Didn't the early versions of OE natively import Emailer databases like no other mailer, thanks to acknowledged "inside information" on Emailer's format? I know the issue was discussed before�: Emailer's death was planned before the Apple-Microsoft agreement, Microsoft didn't kill Emailer. But this doesn't mean Emailer wasn't part of the agreement: MS lacked a mac mail client, Apple had one too many, and boom! right after that MS had a strangely Emailer-compatible working mail client, Apple "lost" it's code and consistently avoids the subject of open-sourcing Emailer since then, which looks increasingly strange these days (Apple open-sources much more important code for Darwin, QuickTime Streaming Server, RendezVous, and even releases old System versions as freeware). My guess is we didn't ask the right door. I bet dollars against cookies that Emailer's code went to MS wearing handcuffs, and was scrupulously ruined since then. If we rescued it now, it would probably be very weak, look 20 years older and wouldn't recognize it's own family. ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
