Sponsored mode REQUIRES 6.2.4?

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J R - 12 Oct 2006 02:07 GMT

Hi all

Maybe I'm the only one a bit sad to hear about Qualcomm retiring the
Eudora codebase (but maybe not). I'm curious about one thing in
Qualcomm's announcement [ http://eudora.com/faq/ ].

"Sponsored mode users that upgrade to Eudora version 7.1 for Windows and
6.2.4 for Mac will be able to remain in Sponsored mode in perpetuity.
QUALCOMM plans to stop trafficking advertisements at some point during
open source development. "

Any idea why they would REQUIRE upgrading to 6.2.4 for sponsored mode?

Makes me a little suspicious

Cheers,
jr

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Kathy Morgan - 12 Oct 2006 02:47 GMT

> Maybe I'm the only one a bit sad to hear about Qualcomm retiring the
> Eudora codebase (but maybe not). I'm curious about one thing in
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> Any idea why they would REQUIRE upgrading to 6.2.4 for sponsored mode?

It sounds to me like right now they don't require it. It's been years
since I've used Eudora in sponsored mode, but I believe versions before
6.2.4 will revert to Lite mode if you stop receiving ads. Since they
plan to stop trafficking ads (which means your Eudora would not receive
them), it sounds like they've modified the coding in 6.2.4 so that it
will stay in sponsored mode even if no ads come in.

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David Morrison - 12 Oct 2006 06:35 GMT

> Hi all
>
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> QUALCOMM plans to stop trafficking advertisements at some point during
> open source development. "

This whole "in perpetuity" thing puzzles me somewhat. If it is an open
source project, once the open source version is available, what would it
matter whether you were licensed or not? Wouldn't you get all the
features for free?

Cheers

David

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Kathy Morgan - 12 Oct 2006 07:18 GMT

> > Maybe I'm the only one a bit sad to hear about Qualcomm retiring the
> > Eudora codebase (but maybe not). I'm curious about one thing in
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> matter whether you were licensed or not? Wouldn't you get all the
> features for free?

Only for whatever comes out of the new project. They're talking about
the users who want to stick with Eudora 6.x.

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Bill Cole - 12 Oct 2006 21:07 GMT

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> > Hi all
> >
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> matter whether you were licensed or not? Wouldn't you get all the
> features for free?

See http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope

The open source project won't be based on the existing Eudora source
(which I suspect has a rich set of licensing encumbrances...) but
instead be an attempt to "join the Eudora user experience with the
Mozilla platform."

I'm looking at Mulberry. It looks pretty good.

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David Morrison - 12 Oct 2006 22:57 GMT

> I'm looking at Mulberry. It looks pretty good.

"looks" is a poor choice of word :-)

It's feature set seems ok, but it certainly does not "look" good. Far
too cluttered.

David

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Bill Cole - 13 Oct 2006 02:42 GMT

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> > I'm looking at Mulberry. It looks pretty good.
>
> "looks" is a poor choice of word :-)
>
> It's feature set seems ok, but it certainly does not "look" good. Far
> too cluttered.

A valid point.

How about: It seems like a suitable replacement for Eudora. Particularly
now that I am migrating to IMAP and am running into some bad problems
with Eudora's IMAP handling. Thunderbird and Apple Mail can't handle my
mail, but it looks like Mulberry might do the trick.

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