[ale] Chalk up another victory for the open-source movement

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu wrote:

>          IBM OPENS UP EMAIL CODE (TECH. 7:45 am)
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/16805.html
> 
>            The company known for keeping a tight grip on its technology
>            decides that giving away Secure Mailer -- and letting
>            developers tinker with it -- is the best way to
>            boost e-commerce.
> 
>                      Chalk up another victory for the
>                      open-source movement: IBM, hoping to
>                      boost confidence in the Internet as a
>                      safe place to do business, on Monday
>                      unveiled the code to its email program
>                      Secure Mailer. 
>            . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

For those who don't know, what IBM is releasing is Wietse Venema's MTA.  It
used to be called Vmailer, but now is called postfix (see
http://www.postfix.org/).  I've played with an alpha of vmailer before and
it's good stuff.  Kinda like qmail, but without the brain damage, and it's
written by someone you can trust / put up with, unlike qmail.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                            kaboom at gatech.edu
                                               chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu