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“ In fact, Pine and IMAP were both supposed to be killed at least 5 years ago, and the death warrant was signed in 2005. That’s what Alpine was all about; the swan song of Pine. Alpine was supposed to be nothing more than a quick rename of Pine 4.64 to get out of the trademark obligations; tossing in the previously-unreleased WebPine bits, and yanking out the third-party proprietary speller that prevented the release of the source code for PC Pine. The development team went far beyond that. They spent a year creating a major new release, with vast extensions over the old Pine.
— Mark Crispin (a copy of the post should be available at Google Groups - links and emphasis inserted by me)
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