What I ain't so sure of is it will have any future impact in view of the general disenfranchisement of legacy Internet services (remember Usenet, anyone?) in a steady move to commodification and walled gardens.
- Computer History Museum Makes the Eudora Email Client Source Code Available to the Public
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/ ... ublic.html
More story details: https://medium.com/p/940197e0618
Funnily enough, for such a universal functionality of the Internet, there is not an overly large pool of similar FLOSS software. You can check these other previously open sourced email programs for Windows:
- Ishmail -- http://ishmail.sourceforge.net/
- Mulberry -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_(email_client)
- Sylpheed -- http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ (see also Claws Mail -- https://www.claws-mail.org/)
- Thunderbird -- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... il_clients