[NEWS] Eudora Goes Open Source, Joins Mozilla Family

[David Lloyd]

Scott,

> Eudora brings back a few memories for me, I am delighted and sad at the 
> same time as the Eudora codebase is dead (brings a small tear) and all 
> the development is now focused on Thunderbird (smile returns!)

Actually, the development is now focused on Eduroa. The site doesn't say 
that "Thunderbird suddenly became Eudora" or vice versa. What it does 
say, is that Quallcomm have chosen to use the Mozilla Application 
Framework to develop the open source version of Eudora.

This should be good news if the porters get the application port right. 
Having dabbled in writing for the Mozilla application framework myself, 
it's not too difficult to write cross-platform (including FreeBSD, 
GNU/Linux, OpenSolaris etc) applications with a bit of care.

Having said that, though, I've always considered Mozilla Application 
based applications as faster than Java applications but noticably 
"slower" than native applications. By "slower" I mean that they seem to 
suffer latency in their response time compared to say, a gtk+ program or 
a Windows native program (running on Windows).

DSL