[oclug] open source (or not?)

Raj oclug at raj.homelinux.com
Thu Jan 8 13:11:03 EST 2004


On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Raymond Wood wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:32:13PM -0500, Raj imagined:
> > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Raymond Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:10:23AM -0500, [thomas gohard] imagined:
> > > > On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:15:29 -0500 "Michael Lauzon" wrote:
> > > > > Speaking of email clients, found Sylpheed-Claws has a
> > > > > Windoze port.
> > > > 
> > > > Which works great. I've been using it for over a year. I
> > > > used to use Eudora under windows, but it's so much better
> > > > to use the same client under both operating systems.
> > > 
> > > And irrelevant, as this is a GNU/Linux list.
> > 
> > not really.  its a good tool to convert people over to linux
> > if you can first get them to start using apps that are common
> > to linux and windows.  I find such snippets of multi-os
> > opensource software definitely interesting.
> 
> Umm, then don't filter the [OT] Raj :-)  I think you are dead wrong on
> this issue.
> 
> This is not an open source list, or freeware, or shareware, or Apple, or
> ad nauseum, list.  It's a Linux list.  Seems very clear to me.

I guess you're not filtering on [OT] anyway, so it doesn't matter for you 
either.  why bother in that case to set an [OT] for something that is 
relevant to linux.  unless I'm mistaken and linux is not open source :)

relax dude.

--Raj.

> 
> Have Fun,
> Raymond
> 




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