Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2871 mails)

[Vince L <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:58, Pueblo Native wrote:
> I've been following the thread about interfacing with a mail program
> (specifically Eudora).  So I went over to Eudora and looked up
> Penelope.  http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope  I'm rather dense, so I
> can't exactly understand what in the world are they planning to do.
> They say they don't want to compete with Thunderbird; they just want to
> "compliment" it.  What exactly does that mean?

To 'compliment' it is to tell it how wonderful it is in some respect. But they 
actually say they want to 'complement' it, which means something different.

> Is Thunderbird going to 
> end up looking more like Eudora?  I'd personally prefer that they would
> straight out compete (survival of the fittest and all), but whatever
> they plan on doing it's confusing me.

Reading between the lines, I would imagine they are going to recreate Eudora 
in terms of the user interface and experience, using the underlying 
functionality of Mozilla and Thunderbird.

This is actually one further than straight survival of the fittest. These 
people appear to have decided that Mozilla on the 1 hand and Eudora on the 
other have proved themselves fittest in their respective fields, so now they 
are going to put them together - if you like this is 'sexual' reproduction 
after the fittest have been found. Whether or not you agree with that 
judgement is another matter.
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