Eudora goes open source. Sort of.

wot? no trackback link? ;) in feeble substitute:

“i linked to your Eudora post:”

http://go-blog-go.blogspot.com/20061001go-blog-goarchive.html#116066425153848632

gah your comments-system’s auto-parsing is munging the URL at the first underscore

for future reference: http://go-blog-go.blogspot.com/ archive: 2006.10 Thursday October 12

title: “Alas, Eudora is dead”

first lines: “Kourtesy of the redoubtable Calsey, the Adam who provides the great online Trackback tool I link to at the foot of my sidebar:

I am sorry to announce that Eudora is dead.

Eudora is the world’s first and still foremost GUI-yet-big-metal-capable email application. Written by the National Center for Super-Computer Applications’ (NCSA) Steve Dorner back in ‘88 and issued for free, it was essentially a Pure Macintosh app built to a Pure Standards core. (By contrast: Mac OS X is less Macintosh than is Windows XP.) Wholly user-centric, workflow-driven, unix-or-better under the hood. It still stands as the gold standard against which all mail apps must be measured, and against which most fall short.”