On Wednesday, August 29, 2001, Brian Clark wrote:
ACM>> If it has, then I guess there has to be enough potential buyers
ACM>> on the Linux side to make it worth their while?
BC> I wouldn't hold your breath :-) Judging by the release, err, of TB!
BC> version 2 and the fact that, probably, not many Linux users would
BC> purchase it,
In whose opinion? I'm currently evaluating TB!, and though some of
the inconsistencies I find between it and what I'm used to are still
driving me crazy <frown>, so far I like it.
Afaik, there's only ONE email program for Linux that can handle
multiple accounts/identities, and that's Netscape. A lot of us are
quite frustrated by the Netscape browser and will switch to Mozilla as
soon as we feel it's going somewhere. At that time we'll need a great
email client.
BC> I'd take a while guess and say that it probably won't
BC> happen. It's not that Linux users wouldn't think it's worthy, but I'm
BC> sure they'd scream for the source. Or, something.
There are lots of commercial products available for Linux. You don't have to make
a product open-source to make it work under Linux.
And there will be lots more Linux users shortly, too, as Microsoft
users discover the new license terms under which M$ is starting to
sell new versions of the operating system. Things like you can only
reinstall it three times without paying a fee (even if your machine
has crashed or you're a reviewer who rebuilds systems five times a
day), licenses that only last three years (with no upgrades, you
either buy "plans" or your system just stops running). They made some
announcements on this in the last few days.
BC> Many people have claimed that TB! runs great under WINE (I think) and
BC> Win4Lin.
Lots of us (including me) won't run either WINE or any other emulator;
we have "security issues" <smile>.
Of course one thing we'll need is the ability to put a space after
those two "--" characters that preceed the "sig"; we like to keep up
with RFCs and other conventions <smile>. It should look like "-- "
followed by nothing but a line-end character.
(It's not just a "thing"; the space is necessary so automatic reply
systems, mailing list systems, etc., can figure out where the "sig"
starts and deletes it. In fact if all MUAs and mailing list systems did it
properly we wouldn't see those annoying trails of multiple sigs at the
bottom of many posts.)
Jeff (who's in his fifth day of TB! evaluation).
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