Yes, I have a chip on my shoulder – specifically the death of the Penelope project after (as I recall, and said recollections are subject to error and I would appreciate correction of any errors in my memory) Qualcomm was making a grant to the Mozilla Foundation or a related 501(c)3, including code, licenses, employees (if they wished to move) and their salaries in order to save Eudora because the company could not support the program, but wished to see it developed.
As we have seen, the program effectively died after one or two public releases, leaving out huge chunks of what made Eudora what it was – I’m not speaking of “look and feel”, but primary features like the Eudora sorting system, enabling to have each mailbox’s contents sorted into a hundred subcategories, and relay further messages if warranted by text.
At this point, I would feel embarrassed asking for your past three 990s (the other five or six available from the IRS within a week or two)…I guess because in 25 years as a reporter, my biggest catches, and ‘a Pulitzer that got away’ because an editor spiked any thought of getting into an organization – The Boston Globe didn’t and walked away with one the next year) and I equate seeking a 990 with “looking for fraud” which I DO NOT HAVE ANY REASON to believe you committed.
I’d rather just have a FRIENDLY conversation,(ABSOLUTELY not aimed at the kind of stuff I can no longer even do) – I wish I could do a positive piece on your manifesto, ability to “make money giving stuff away” that’s better than the commercial stuff, etc. building the kind of DoubleClick-free et.al. “cyberspace” (meant literally as Sterling meant it when he coined the phrase ‘the place the phone call [or other communication] takes place.) that I hoped for, but, of course, will never exist.
David M. Razler
(631) 226-4693 landline available most days 10 am to 10 pm edt, cell phone (631) 786-6025, one or the other EXCEPT Tuesdays before @1:30 pm. You have the e-mail, please use the “very high” importance flag.