Eudora is going open source

[Xstr8guy]

Thanks Chip! That was very informative.

[Dzinerbear]

I believe the open-source community also came out of the dislike for Microsoft's tactics of owning and buying up everything in site. A good product would come along and as soon as it made a name for itself Microsoft would buy it, and then, often a great little product would get all chewed up in the Microsoft machine, paling in its former brilliance.

Open-source communities were a sort of resistance to rampant consumerism. Even Linux, which I believe is/was open-source, was started as an alternative to Windows. Someone wanted to create an operating system that actually worked and wasn't full of bugs.

Open-source, to a large degree, halted or slowed down the complete globalization of technology into the hands of a few companies. Just like the Internet gave Joe Q Public a say in the world through publishing his own website, open source code gave the small tech guys a fighting chance and gave them a say in how technology developed into the future.

Michael