** On Jul 29, Hans scribbled: > At 12:03 PM 7/28/00 -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote: > >Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a > download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility > will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the update? > Has anyone else tried this? > > > >Thanks -Ethan > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < > /dev/null > > > > > I don't want to start a war here, but what's so great about Evolution? It > looks more like a regression to me. It imitates M$ in more than one way: it > looks like it, has the same bloat factor and packs way to many features in > a single frame. Where is the innovation? I switched from KDE to Gnome > because I saw smarter programs being developed by the Gnome team, but after > seeing Gnumeric and now this Evolution I start to doubt. Nobody forces you to use Evolution. The advantage of such software is that it provides a functionally and visually equivalent to proprietary software while being 100% free. I suppose that advantage is obvious. You can look at it as on a marketing/support factor. If any of your customers would come to you and say "hm... I would switch to Linux, but I kinda like the M$ Outlook. If Linux had something like that...". Now you will be able to say "Voila! Evolution - right here for you!" :-). Besides, the product will no doubt be dozens of times more secure than any of the M$ incarnations of Outlook. There was an awful flamewar some time ago on debian-devel/debian-project regarding non-free software. One of the arguments of one of the sides was that as long as we cannot provide the users with 100% free equivalents to the proprietary/non-free software we cannot remove the non-free section from Debian. Well, Evolution is one (big) step towards the goal of having only free software in your machine. That said, I will only state that I won't use Evolution for my own mail, since I prefer other MUAs, but I find Evolution a great thing to have in our (read: the free community) software pool :-) marek
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