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

[Ben Stover]

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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:29:30 +0000 (GMT), Dave Saville wrote:

>VOICE had to *buy* the rights to the OS/2 code and name from them - and
>that took some doing. 

Who is "VOICE" and since when are they trying to acquire PMMail?

>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 - 

Interesting: In which prograrmming language is it written ?

C, C++, VisBasic,.... ?

>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.

Does that really mean we can expect an update of PMMail for WinXP ????
I cannot believe it  .....

You are saying "us". Are you one of the developers ?

>-- 
>Regards

>Dave Saville

Ben

>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 :-)