[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Thu Oct 11 22:04:06 CDT 2007


On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:10:46PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Michael Parson wrote:
>>> Evolution is a graphical mail program for Linux (does it compile on
>>> other platforms yet?).  It has a plugin from Novell that lets you read
>>> your mail on an Exchange server, it uses the same xml/html interface
>>> that the Outlook Web Access uses.
>>
>> It's one of the worst written and designed programs I've ever seen.
>>
>> It's like they wanted to take Outlook, and make something even worse  
>> based on it.
>
> Well, it was written by Red Hat, wasn't it...?  Not for nothing do I say
> they're the Microsoft of open source.

IIRC, it was written by some company that was bought by Novell.  I want
to say they had a monkey in their logo?  

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org



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