This mailing list has been over this "junk" conversation too many times. This issue has nothing to do with what is at hand. The real issue is open source. With having an open source project, there has to be some control on making that project succeed and Davide has been doing great on this. I know that sounds hypocritical, but let me explain. First, everyone knows that Linux has been great on creating this alternative to Windows, UNIX and the such, however, having "More than one way to do it" makes it difficult to use/learn for end users and eager administrators. I can go in and configure my Samba through text files, Webmin, SWAT, and others and they all do it a little bit differently. However, I know people that are trying to "switch" to Linux are having problems with the many alternatives.
You can certainly contribute to the open source project at hand and it may even take hold and be implemented into future versions of the project, but do NOT expect everyone to agree with your actions and for the project leaders to accept it. Davide's reluctancy to add and accept everything that is thrown at him, will prevent XMail from becoming bloated and unmanageable. If a person were to take a look at xmailserver.org, Davide puts third-party links on the website, including M$ apps.. one ex. being XMail Administrator(written VB, I believe), I use this, too. So... write it, post it, people will use it, and finally, shut up because your contribution(s) will prove their worthiness, not your OS wars and other arguments. Liron, this is not a direct attack at you... just at the topic. Davide, don't mean to step on any toes, please correct me if I am wrong. Ben Liron Newman wrote: >Guys, I think the hostility in your discussion isn't helping anyone >understand the other side's arguments any better. > >As for my opinion: Windows is cool (I'm an MCP myself) but it has its >down sides. Open source is great. Cross platform is wonderful, when it >works. Personally I've been using perl (a bit) and PHP (a lot) on my >Apache webserver running on Win2k Pro and although I did have some >problems, they are Apache's fault and not PHP or Perl's. > >Personally, when I want to write text parsers I use this: >http://vpascal.com. It's free and cross-platform, too bad it isn't GPL. >And Pascal is a very simple language to play with strings in, and that >specific compiler creates great executables. The reason I don't use PHP >or Perl is that I don't really know them beyond playing with other >people's code. > >Now that I'm done boring you all I ask you again to read the first line >I wrote and think about it when you answer, because there's some sense >in both "side"'s arguments. > > >Have fun. :) > > > > >Liron. >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
