p2pnet news | Product News:- “Alpine is a fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users.

“Alpine is based on the Pine Message System, which was also developed at the University of Washington. Alpine can be learned by exploration and the use of context-sensitive help. The user experience is highly customizable through the use of the Alpine Setup command.”

That’s the write-up on the University of Washington site announcing the release of Version 2.0. under the Apache License.

Developed by the university’s department of computing and communications, it includes all the source code needed to build Unix, Windows, and Web-based mail user agents.

Before Alpine came Pine and, in late 2005, the team felt Pine was a very mature productm says the stiek, going on:

“We wanted to reorganize the Pine source code, distribute the Web version that has been very popular here at the Univerity of Washington, and relax our trademark obligation for source code quality control to a world-wide customer base.

“The trademark obligation represented an ongoing administrative effort. Coincidentally, the UW is standardizing its license for the several other products we offer to the Apache License, Version 2.0.

“The cleanest way to do all this was to stop developing Pine (a registered trademark) and start a new product that would be released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Thus Alpine was born.

“Among other things, the Apache License, Version 2.0 permits redistribution of modified versions whereas the old Pine license did not.”

Why Alpine?

“We just liked the name and the closeness to Pine. The beautiful setting we enjoy here in the Pacific Northwest helped; that is Mt. Rainier on the Alpine logo.”

Click here for a download.

Click here building and installation instructions.

Click here for the Alpine-Info discussion list.

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