Finally on Sylpheed

[Harold L Hunt II]

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