At 12:52 PM 9/10/02 -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote: > >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.
No, but maybe if they can actually make their product perform all the features it claims it can do (i.e. SSL transactions) at that point the "fully-operational" version will be sold as a commercial product.
