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Kiwi going closed source, MailCore will remain open
Entry published jul 07 2007

With talk of email clients in the air, I started seriously thinking about making Kiwi closed source, something I have been considering for 6 months. In my last post I brought this issue up, and all the e-mail and comments regarding a close source Kiwi have been very positive. The consensus is: go for it.

That’s what I’m going to do: Kiwi is now closed source. Any code in the app that was not written by me (which is very little at this point) will be rewritten. Please note, that MailCore will remain open source under the BSD License. If someone wants to write their own IMAP/SMTP client based on MailCore, go for it! It will only help make MailCore stronger.

The Kiwi wiki will be switched over to a wiki on MailCore and e-mail standards. While I’m at it I’m going to switch my repositories over from Subversion to Mercurial, because Mercurial rocks.

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The state of email
Entry published jul 06 2007

Email has struck a cord with many prominent Mac bloggers:

With all this talk of e-mail in the air I wanted to add a little bit:

I am still actively working on MailCore/Kiwi, and my drive is only stronger after the “features” for Leopard Mail were revealed. Progress has been slow due to time constraints: during the school year I’m a computer science student at UIUC and now I’m an intern on the iPhoto team. So, don’t expect anything an alpha immediately, but I am hacking on it.

Another interesting tidbit has been raised, bloggers, like Michael McCracken, believe there is a market for a power user e-mail client; I have to agree. In fact, I’ve been thinking for the past 6 months about the commercial potential in Kiwi. I initially announced that Kiwi would be open source, but am now toying with the idea of making a Kiwi closed source and the email framework, MailCore, as open source. I’m curious what your thoughts are on this.

Update:

Wow, “Mail Pro” is hot topic. I’ve included links to more blog posts discussing email.

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