Daniel Kasak wrote: > John Meyer wrote: > >> Playing devil's advocate here for a moment, if you really want to go >> head to head with MS Office, sooner or later you're going to have to >> face the behemoth known as Outlook. Without it, it will be Microsoft >> Office vs. OpenOffice + some random e-mail client. Get the drift in >> terms of unified products. >> > > 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. > > One thing they might want to do, is list email apps that work well with the OO "Send as E-mail" function. For example, I've found that, on Linux, Thunderbird works well, but Seamonkey doesn't.
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