Re: Finally on Sylpheed

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Staf Verhaegen wrote:
> Jim George wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:21:19 -0700 (PDT)
> > Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > Now that's a good idea!
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone heard what happened to the port of Evolution?  Someone
> > > > said (I think) that there was to be a port to cygwin?
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > > The last I heard, evolution has been around for millions of years,
> > > give or take an eon.  Seriously though, I would be hard pressed to
> > > use that piece of s**t.  That turncoat Miguel deIcaza is being quite
> > > the hypocrite by keeping the "Exchange" server access functionality
> > > closed source (and for a fee).  You see I was in the community when
> > > the whole Rasterman/deIcaza merger happened and the e-desktop became
> > > gnome.  I rember how he evangilized free software and the opensource
> > > movement, and scoffed at anyone who didn't release the source to the
> > > software they were working on.  Personally, I will not use GNOME
> > > because of this [KDE is better anyhow], and if I could get away with
> > > it, I wouldn't use gtk either.  As for evolution, it is too bulky,
> > > too buggy, and just plain ugly.  Stick with Sylpheed or better yet,
> > > Pine!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nicholas
> > Nicholas,
> >
> >        boy did I touch a nerve ;)
> >
> >        As it happens I like both sylpheed and pine (especially the latter, if only that could become a GUI).
> >
> >        However I have to say that Evolution is probably the strongest Linux x-mail client I've come across in all my years with Linux.  It's a real shame that deIcaza should have sold out in this way as it would have been a real killer application in the workplace.
>
> Everything De Icaza and Ximian does is open source except one peace of code
> that is used to connect to an expensive propriety email server. Without this
> connector thing evolution email client is fully usable and open source as is
> ximian gnome, red carpet, mono, ...
>
> Staf.
>
> PS: Live would be so much easier when people would just try having fun with
> computing and not consider it as some kind of religion. Live would be so much
> easier when people would not try to tell to other people what they should like
> or should not like.
Anything further regarding the merits of Evolution, etc. is off topic 
for this mailing list.

Harold