>yeah, well, how come if qpopper is open source it is hosted by eudora -- >isn't that a paid company?
I can't speak for the motivations of Qualcomm, but it was my impression that they wanted a POP3 daemon that worked well with Eudora. So they probably consider qpopper a loss leader. But ... I don't really see how that matters in any case. Right now, it's open source, and Qualcomm can't magically _make_ it proprietary and tell everyone who's currently running it that they have to give them money. So I don't really see what the problem is having qpopper being hosted by Qualcomm; they've got a vested interest in making sure it works. If we contribute to it, yes, Qualcomm could take that and make it into a commercial product ... but someone ELSE could take those changes and release a free version. So where exactly is the harm here? >and also if you type www.qpopper.org it takes >you to euroda's home page -- not a qpopper home page -- are we just >perfecting a eudora product so they can turn it into a for fee mta? we b >sukkers Uh, buddy ... news flash here. That ALREADY HAPPENED. There's was "Qpopper LX" (IIRC) a year or two ago. It was eventually discontinued, people who bought it were given a refund, and the results were released as Qpopper 4. You'd have to ask Qualcomm about what was going on there; I only watched it externally. --Ken
