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Open Source Application Foundation

Dan Gillmor breaks the news that Mitch Kapor is funding and running a new foundation that’s creating an open-source personal information manager. The idea appears to be to make something that does something similar to Microsoft Exchange/Outlook (e-mail, calendars, etc.), except better and open. And more, like instant messaging (something I’ve never taken to, personally). It’ll be interesting to see what they come up with. If it’s just a fancy e-mail client, then ho-hum, I’ll stick with Eudora. It looks like there might be something more to it, though, so I’ll keep an eye on it. Also interesting is that Kapor, the man who started Lotus and made such software classics as 1-2-3, as well as one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has started a blog to cover the progress on the application.

Posted at 12:34 PM