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John Kelly

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Jul 18, 2009, 8:06:44 AM7/18/09
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> We are still working on a funding model for Panda IMAP that
> will permit an public open source distribution

Well its been a year now. If you are serious, you could get started by
putting your patch diff on an FTP server. Should take no more than ten
minutes to generate and upload.

Mark, email me if you want a free account on my FTP server. My real
email address is in this post.


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Mark Crispin

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Jul 19, 2009, 1:39:20 AM7/19/09
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, John Kelly posted:

> Well its been a year now. If you are serious, you could get started by
> putting your patch diff on an FTP server. Should take no more than ten
> minutes to generate and upload.

The current funding for Panda IMAP is insufficient for a public open
source distribution.

UW IMAP will probably still be viable for a few more years. There are
other IMAP implementations that may fall under the category of "free
warez."

-- Mark --

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John Kelly

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Jul 19, 2009, 7:36:15 AM7/19/09
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:39:20 -0700, Mark Crispin <m...@panda.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, John Kelly posted:
>> Well its been a year now. If you are serious, you could get started by
>> putting your patch diff on an FTP server. Should take no more than ten
>> minutes to generate and upload.
>
>The current funding for Panda IMAP is insufficient for a public open
>source distribution.

You advertise bug fixes already done, unfunded, but you won't even put
them on an FTP server. That's mean. AFAICT, Panda IMAP is as good as
dead.

Mark Crispin

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Jul 19, 2009, 3:40:44 PM7/19/09
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, John Kelly posted:

> You advertise bug fixes already done, unfunded, but you won't even put
> them on an FTP server. That's mean. AFAICT, Panda IMAP is as good as
> dead.

I am sorry if your mission-critical systems depended upon UW IMAP. As a
university funded project, UW IMAP lasted an extraordinarily long time.
Nothing last forever.

Panda IMAP is funded and distributed to its funding entities. Any
distribution to freeloaders (a.k.a. "free software") would require
substantially greater funding.

There is no such thing as "free software", whether as in "free beer" or
"freedom". Someone always pays for it, and there are always restrictions.

Bill Kearney

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Jul 24, 2009, 8:49:38 AM7/24/09
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> Panda IMAP is funded and distributed to its funding entities.

Which are?

Gary R. Schmidt

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Jul 24, 2009, 9:56:03 AM7/24/09
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Bill Kearney wrote:
>> Panda IMAP is funded and distributed to its funding entities.
>
> Which are?

Well, *I'm* one.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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