[MlMt] Finding rules

[Bill Cole]

On 26 Nov 2020, at 11:19, Charlie Clark wrote:

> On 26 Nov 2020, at 15:58, MLMT at rhp.tw wrote:
>
>> I have never found an explanation as to why Qualcomm purchased 
>> Eudora. It made little business sense as Qualcomm has always been a 
>> semiconductor
>
> They got it because the developer (Steve Dorner?) of it started 
> working for them. In America, and possibly elsewhere, what employees 
> work on, even in their spare time, is often considered company 
> property…

It's more than that. Qualcomm hired Steve and bought Eudora from UIUC 
because they used it internally and wanted to assure its continued 
development in ways they desired. During the 90's they seemed to 
actually view Eudora as a real product and even a brand, at various 
points running an email service (EudoraMail) and owning a proprietary 
mail server package (the erstwhile MailShare and Apple Internet Mail 
Server) written by Glenn Anderson, who continued to maintain EIMS 
2001-2009 as his own product.



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