Hello Roberto,
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 2:02:27 AM you [RM]wrote (at least in
part):
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>> V2 will be released this year and mainly will
>> have full support for IMAP4, new filtering system, HTML Editor and
>> as I know, redesigned interface.
RM> Do you know anything about a port to Linux? I've been using Kylix and
RM> BCB under Linux, porting Windows apps took about a day per app on
RM> average. From what I understand TB is written in Delphi. Shouldn't be
RM> that hard to port and would win a big market for Ritlabs.
Why is this "a big market"? Don't get me wrong, I'd _LOVE_ it if I could
use The Bat! with Linux natively, as wine simply su**s in this regard,
but I don't get the point where the market should be!?!?
Linux users are used to "Open Source". Most applications for Linux are
Open Source and free in the double meaning of the word.
The only applications so far successful being sold for Linux are
"enterprise applications", even SAP decided not to sell it's database.
Why should a Linux user, not being used to use The Bat! from his
Windows, buy a licence for The Bat! with _sooo_ many free
alternatives?
Gnu, Emacs, Pine, Mutt, Sylpheed(-claws), KMail, Ximian, and so on [1] ...
All of them are available for zero, what should a "normal user"
convince to pay for The Bat!?
P.S.: This topic might become OT really fast, so I suggest we respect
the list charta and move on to TBOT. CC set, F-Up2 recommended
and appreciated.
[1] The order is pure random and does not imply anything
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Regards
Peter Palmreuther
(The Bat! v1.63 Beta/7 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1)
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
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