On 26 Nov 2020, at 11:19, Charlie Clark wrote:
On 26 Nov 2020, at 15:58, m...@rhp.tw wrote:
I have never found an explanation as to why Qualcomm purchased
Eudora. It made little business sense as Qualcomm has always been a
semiconductor
They got it because the developer (Steve Dorner?) of it started
working for them. In America, and possibly elsewhere, what employees
work on, even in their spare time, is often considered company
property…
It's more than that. Qualcomm hired Steve and bought Eudora from UIUC
because they used it internally and wanted to assure its continued
development in ways they desired. During the 90's they seemed to
actually view Eudora as a real product and even a brand, at various
points running an email service (EudoraMail) and owning a proprietary
mail server package (the erstwhile MailShare and Apple Internet Mail
Server) written by Glenn Anderson, who continued to maintain EIMS
2001-2009 as his own product.
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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