[Alpine-info] re-alpine and alpine

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 06:22:35PM +0100, Barry Landy wrote:

             ..........snip..........


> 

> There was a crystal cleat statement from Mark Crispin (developer of the 

> c-client) and already at that point an ex-employee of UW. The powers 

> that be at UW decided to go with a mainstream mail client and that 

> therefore development of their own MUA was unnecessary. Apparently this 

> decision almost bankrupted them (that's what I heard.....) because of 

> the license costs.


I wonder if they learned their lesson.

               .........snip.........

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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