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Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check-is-in-the-mail dept.

Daemon Duck writes "One of the web's oldest and most respected email clients is flickering out of existence. Pegasus mail and its companion SMTP server, Mercury32, have been discontinued due to lack of funding for the ongoing development. On the website, the author David Harris states that if some funding becomes available he would consider opening the source code or continuing the development."

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  1. Gimme $$$s by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 1, Redundant
    David Harris states that if some funding becomes available he would consider opening the source code or continuing the development.

    While I can understand the need to eat and keep a roof over one's head while continuing to provide and improve free software, how much does it cost to simply open source the code?

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."