[pmmail-list] Interest in New Edition of PMMail

[Alex Taylor]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:22:06 +0000, Xav wrote:

>>>   So that means that the current owners of the PMMail source were 
>>>resolved to give the PMMail source to the public for free, 
>
>> I think the owner may have changed his mind.
>
>> That's the main reason for the "costly".  I very recently asked the current 
>> owner to donate the product to VOICE, but instead he wants to sell it.  ;-(
>
>So "who" precisely is the current owner?   Trevor Hemsley offered to
>buy it for a nominal sum and was turned down a while ago.
>
>This is interesting as:-
>
>1. The owner can sell it.   This seems to contradict a reason given as
>to why the OS/2 version could not be made open source, as promised
>early in 2004.

At issue is the cost of opening up the source.

According to the developer, the PMMail/2 source code still contains 
proprietary pieces.  These have to be replaced before the code can be released 
to the public... and that takes development effort.  As I understand it, since 
(a) he isn't being paid to work on PMMail; (b) he already has a day job that 
takes up all his working time; and (c) he already has other programming work 
that occupies most of his spare time -- he's basically said that he can't do 
the necessary work unless he gets paid for it.  Which is a reasonable 
position, IMO.

-- 
Alex Taylor <alextaylor41@rogers.com>
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex