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Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related



On 12/02/2013 11:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 10:27 -0600, yaro@marupa.net wrote:
On Monday, December 02, 2013 05:14:17 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:14:27 +0100, AP <worldwithoutfences@gmail.com>

wrote:
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf

<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
I can't remember what I tested a while ago. Perhaps Claws, maybe
Sylpheed. I'll try _both_ again.
Have all tried Thunderbird?  I am eager to know about it. Is it
excellent?
I used it for years, it was and likely is excellent, but not a native
Linux app and as already mentioned before, I dislike the Mozilla policy.
It's my eccentric, whimsical notion that I don't use Mozillas _if
possible_, but I also guess that ... [1]. IOW Mozilla as a MUA for me
never ever again. As browser I still use QupZilla and the Tor Browser
Bundle quasi based on Mozilla software.
Why would you say it's not Linux native? Is Thunderbird not compiled for
Linux? It's not running on Java or Mono or anything, is it? I don't follow
your logic here.

Do you mean it's not exclusive to Linux? That's true, but why is that a bad
thing?
If you want adapt a Microsoft/Apple policy to Linux, then Mozillas are
perfect. Go and give Google all your private data, don't care about the
freedom to choose a mail format, use mbox (yes, it's UNIX, not
Microsoft, but how often is it used by Linux MUAs?) ... Mozilla software
is excellent regarding to technically aspects, but not regarding to
freedom.

And just sacrifice something else useful to the great god FOSS!


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