On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:44:59PM -0800, Enrique A Suarez wrote: > Hello Marvin: > > I am not a techie. Just a plain technology journalist.With regard to your query, I >think I may disappoint you if I say that Edsamail will most likely never support >LINUX. > The reason: Microsoft is an investor in the company that developed > this
Someone who is once again spreading these lies that have been disavowed by Brian Bacquiran and other people who actually do the work of getting Edsamail to run. As I recall, Brian stated categorically than Microsoft did not and does not now have a stake in Edsamail. I believe there was a thread here late last year about this thing, and Brian himself stated that the reason why Edsamail had no support for platforms other than Windows was that it was simply too expensive for them to maintain and support this extra software. They once had a version that ran on Palm computing devices but had to discontinue it because they simply did not have the resources to do the inevitable maintenance and support such released software would have. Any version for Linux would have the same problems. And no, I believe Edsamail's business model totally precludes it from becoming open source and farming out support and maintenance to the community. Well, yes, you are right that it is unlikely that Edsamail will ever have Linux versions. But not because of MS. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.ph.inter.net/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
