On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 06:18 AM, uilleann wrote:There is one reason why Stalker would not benefit from making SIMS open source: People like me.
I know that (although it sounded more like he quoted a reply from someone else at the company and not a written policy), and I was directing my mail at Stalker, the company, itself ("you" was "you plural", i.e. Stalker, for which English has no word). I'm not arguing with him, but suggesting that he try and get the powers-that-be there to reconsider the issue.
After all, they didn't give a very convincing reason at all, and I don't want to see everyone give up without a fight. My point, more than anything, was to determine a clearer reason for their decision, which seems awfully weak.
I'd love to have a version of SIMS that ran on OSX. If they made the SIMS source open, I have the programming skills to make it happen. If I, or someone else, took that code and ported it to OSX/BSD/Linux/etc. it would take away from Stalker's Communigator Pro market.
I think that is startlingly optimistic about the nature of the SIMS code and the ease of a port, and also somewhat naive about the world of free mail servers for Unix-like systems.
Basically Communigator Pro is much more than I need and the license fee is more than I want to pay. SIMS has just about the correct amount of functionality and, most of the time, just works. I'd love to have these minor bugs fixed and to have it run native on OSX.
On the other hand, I would be willing to pay a modest fee for a "OSX SIMS Pro". If there were enough of us that feel that way maybe we could make a business case for Stalker to resume development of SIMS.
I think that's unlikely in the extreme. The free alternatives (e.g. Postfix+Courier-IMAP) are too good for a low-price SIMS to have a chance unless it is a whole lot better than the existing SIMS.
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Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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