I could go with that, if it wasn't for the fact that on several lists that I am on I've seen people saying that open source products such as OpenOffice and Linux need to make inroads in the desktop market. Added to the fact is that there are people that are trying to convince their organizations to use OpenOffice. That means competing with MS Office, and as such, you're going to be going against them feature to feature. Outlook adds a whole slew of features that right now OO can't offer. Now I am with you in that I like the fact that I can use Thunderbird or Evolution or whatnot. But I'm also looking at it from the guy who has no concept of office suites other than Microsoft and is thinking of using open office. One of his questions inevitably will be, well, that's nice, but how about Outlook? And who says we have to reinvent the wheel? Would it be so bad, for instance, if Evolution was merged into OpenOffice, to pick an example out of the air? Could this lead to feature creep? Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, that's my $.02 USD
Daniel Kasak wrote: > Ha! > > Open-source products don't compete in the same way as commercial > products. The OpenOffice developers, for example, don't care whether you > use Thunderbird, Evolution, webmail, or whatever, as long as you have a > decent list of alternatives. There is no incentive ( a dis-incentive, in > fact ) to continually reinvent the wheel. If there are good open-source > email clients around, why should more developer time ( which is sorely > lacking, by the way ) be wasted on YetAnotherEmailClient? > > Get the drift in terms of open-source products. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
