[pmmail-list] PMMail WInXP+Vista future as open source

[Dave Saville]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:19:16 +0100, Ben Stover wrote:

>If Blueprint Software is not willing to develop PMMail for WinXP,Vista they could make the source code 
>freely available. This way users could improve some necessary features.
>
>I don't think that they sell currently any PMMail licenses
>
>So why not make it Open Source? Otherwise PMMail will we die silently.
>
>Ben
>
>On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:57:25 +0000 (GMT), Dave Saville wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:09:58 -0500, Jim Ferguson wrote:
>
>>>Happy pmmail user here just wondering if any gnomes are working to bring us into the 21st C?
>
>>Not unless you are using OS/2 or ECS :-) 

VOICE had to *buy* the rights to the OS/2 code and name from them - and
that took some doing. Several people had tried in the past to do this
and had got nowhere. I can't see them open sourcing it - They
specifically excluded the Win rights from the deal. I think one can
still buy a Win copy. Would be interesting to know *when* the last copy
was sold. 

Also the code is dreadful - We thought we would have a beta out the
door in six months. It took us nearly eighteen. Currently on beta 3. GA
very close.

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Regards

Dave Saville