Open source software is always going to be popular for the simple reason that if you happen to be a programmer and don’t like something about the software, all you have to do is open that software up and change what you don’t like. Considering most people that regularly check out free software have at least some facility with the computer programming side of things, the popularity of open source software is not something that is particularly confusing.

Sylpheed is an open source piece of software that allows you to read your e-mails and your news items. It is based on a GTK toolkit with GUI elements included as well and for that reason is actually relatively easy to edit if you wanted to change the source code to include advanced functions for your e-mail client (this is not to say that they will not be included at some future date, since the current open source software is still in beta stages of development). The way in which the program was created also allows you to run the client on any Windows system, making it even friendlier to the large majority of computer users around.

More information regarding Sylpheed can be found at http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

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