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As much as the talent behind software drove the acquisition, Sparrow also had some very solid, semi-innovative features and a sophisticated IMAP engine that are
by CognitiveLens 14y ago
As much as the talent behind software drove the acquisition, Sparrow also had some very solid, semi-innovative features and a sophisticated IMAP engine that are now valuable technical/IP properties for Google. I would be very surprised if they open-sourced anything from this acquisition.
- hokkos 14y agoThe imap engine is open source : http://www.etpan.org/ http://www.etpan.org/
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoI don't know: from earlier researches, it seems Sparrow is based on LibEtPan which is open-source: - http://www.etpan.org/libetpan/index.html http://www.etpan.org/libetpan/index.html - https://twitter.com/sparrow/status/6396505883676672 https://twitter.com/sparrow/status/6396505883676672