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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org