Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Christian Surchi wrote:
> I think that pico is more easily clonable than pine, isn't it?
Yes. But I feel that both are necessary to clone. PINE is -very- popular
here, especially at universities. And it's far from free. Pico is also
quite popular, especially among Unix newbies and those too lazy to learn
something else (e.g. me ;) ) Not to break out the cluestick or anything,
but really guys, you -aren't- going to convince everyone to give up pico
and pine, and if any given distro doesn't offer them (or exact clones
thereof), people will be seriously annoyed. And they -will- download and
install pico and pine. Let's not create a distro that would tempt such a
wide swath of Unix users to go out and pollute it with non-free
nonsense...
> I understand the situation, I grew up on pico and pine, but I switched to emacs
> and I'm switching to mutt. :)
>
> Pine is not too bad, but, when you try a powerful client, you realize that is
> not perfect.
>
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