p2pnet.net News:- Catching up to Google, Amazon, Flickr, among others, Yahoo is opening the core code to its email app.

Although it’ll keep control of the code that deals with user names and passwords, "programmers will be able to tinker with almost every other part of the e-mail reading program," says the BBC.

Only Yahoo’s broadband partners, such as BT, have had access to the innards of the email application, says the story.

Reuters has Chad Dickerson, head of Yahoo’s software developer relations program, saying he believes the move represents, "the biggest single Web software ever to be opened up for public development".

Also See:
BBC – Yahoo opens up its e-mail program, October 2, 2006
Reuters – Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail, September 30, 2006

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