Mitch is talking about his current project: an open source Outlook/Exchange Server replacement (to put it crudely). He’s interested in this because it plays into his anti-authoritarian, decentralized instincts, one of which resulted (with John Perry Barlow) in the EFF.org.

Is “Chandler” really about more than email and calendars? Yes, (Mitch says) if you get lots of users, you get lots of leverage. “That’s why we’re going to lead with the application piece.” The clients they’re building will help determine the requirements for the platform. “People could build the equivalent of a finder or a file manager fairly readily.”

Cool feature: You’ll be able to manage your attachments independent of the messages. Hallelujah!

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