On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can you call a program that is unusable 'pure'? > > It depends on who the user is... software usually has multiple users and buyers and they all value different things. Something that is technically brilliant but cant be operated by the target end user is pure and unusable. Some of our best products in the company I used to work for fell into that category. They were killed. The products that were easy to install, use and maintain were successful but usually they were the ones with the most technical compromises and weaknesses. I've been using Evolution for the past few weeks since going 100% GNU/Linux at work. I found a bug and reported it. It's to do with the way the client reads commas and semi-colons in the message recipient fields. The nice people at the other end said it wasn't a bug at all because Evo is just working with the mail standard, which doesn't allow semi colons. But the problem is Outlook doesn't care and since most of my email comes from Outlook users, Evo doesn't meet my needs. So I reckon they should break the standard to meet the real world. I'm not holding my breath.
