On 2010-01-25, at 21:04 , Nick Peelman wrote:
> 
> As long as i can kill the preview pane for messages, I could give a
> damn.  I don't think I'm alone on that one.

Yes, kill the preview is good.


> You seem to be missing the "And Professionals Who Rely On Email."

Rely on email ≠ rely on exotic IMAP extensions.

But as you mentioned yourself, it's a draft. No point in reading too much out 
of every word.


> As far as the "lean" comments he makes in the Vision Draft, I'm
> curious what he means by "do less but do it better"  Does Mail include
> a cornucopia of hidden features I'm not aware of?  Did I miss a
> software update and it turned into a Groupware client?

Can I say just one word? Stationaries.


> And to back up a minute, WTF is this implication that Open Source
> software exists predominantly for use by programmers?

It's not an implication, it's an observation. Not a rule, not a goal, not even 
a good thing. Just a fact.

> Firefox, Thunderbird, 7Zip, CoRD, Adium, VLC, MySQL, Apache, PHP

I'd wager this is programmer land: MySQL, Apache, PHP

(Not because you have to be a programmer to use, but because programmers have 
to put up with databases and web servers, so it's in their best interest to 
make them fucking work.)

> a stitch of C or Obj-C or whatever in their life.

I'd say most professional programmers haven't coded C or ObjC in their life.

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