Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

[Andrew Sullivan <sullivana@bpl.on.ca>]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:

> It seems like it will be better and surely safer than Outlook,

Why better and, most particularly, why safer?  Given that GNOME is
built to allow components to interact with one another via scripting,
there is no reason to suppose that the same problems faced by MS
Office could not find their way into a GNOME environment.  Once you
start building tools to make their interaction apparently seamless,
you face the possibility that someone is going to exploit that
seamlessness.  There is nothing magical about Free software that
makes it immune to those problems.

A

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