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Phillip Deackes <p.deackes@oadby-gartree.leics.sch.uk> wrote:
>I use a commercial product, Ishmail, as my email client under Linux. It is
>by far the best email app I have used.
>
>I went to the Ishmail site yesterday to see if any updates were available
>and found an announcement that it is no longer being sold or developed. The
>company invited requests for the souce code.
>
>Unfortuantely I am not a programmer, but I am wondering if the Linux
>community is aware of this offer? Ishmail is an extremely polished product
>indeed. Maybe someone would like to get hold of the source code and carry
>on with development.

Quite possibly. The amount of interest would depend on the terms under which
the source code is made available (public domain, BSD-like, GPL, other).

>Is there a newsgroup which would get this info to those who might be
>interested better than the two I have chosen?

Presumably Ishmail is not Linux-specific. The readers of gnu.misc.discuss
will probably be interested, in particular if the source is made available
under a free license, or the company could be convinced to release it under
a free license.

Ray
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