Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (213 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

->Sorry, but I guess this is incorrect and that you missed the point: 

Yes, I said I missed the point...hence I actually said " Sorry, I missed
your point." ;)

->- kmail _can_ import Pegasus email-folders (and up to now nobody has been 
->sued... :->), in adddition Pegasus offers Unix-mailbox-format as an alternative 
->to its proprietary format.

I haven't even bother to look at Pegasus Mail since Win 3.1 so I
wouldn't know. I was basically telling that person what I read about 2
years ago. I wasn't aware things had changed. 


->> and if the format is reverse engineered in some cases the developer
->> doing the reverse engineering can be jailed under the DMCA. The guy
->
->AFAIK there is no DMCA in NZL. ;)

No DMCA in Russia either, but someone got popped for it. What if the
person who reverse engineered it was a U.S. Citizen and the Pegasus
author decided to use U.S. law to their advantage just to make a fool of
the U.S. developer and to cause a stir. :) The EU is working on a law
that is very much like the much hated DCMA. 

->He has some doubts about quality of open source products that everyone 
->who like can read on http://www.pmail.com/sundry/pmlinux.htm and for this 
->reason the source won't be given to the public. 

I never said anything about open sourcing Pegasus Mail. He could make a
binary only version for those who wanted to use it. A lot of Windows
users don't have issue with binary only software and those would be his
target users. :)

I've used Mutt for years now...and GUI mailers annoy me...so this is
where I exit this conversation. BTW..I was defending KMail earlier. ;)

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