Mozilla Thunderbird

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:47:59 +0000, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
> The fact that Ximian Evolution is now called "Novell Evolution" and is
> now being promoted as an integral part of the "Novell Linux Desktop"
> which is far from GPL, would worry me if I were Ubuntu...

Novell Linux Desktop isn't GPL? That's news to me, and I'm not sure
how that would be possible.

> In contrast Thunderbird, and the Mozilla Project, is still firmly
> committed to GPL.

I don't believe this is a licensing issue. It's a usability issue. 

I could care less either way; I use gmail. But the wife and kids
mostly use the ISP's IMAP/POP mail and I have them on Thunderbird
because it runs on either Windows or Linux. That's a big point in
Thunderbird's favour for mixed environments (though I suppose
Evolution's Windows equivalent is Outlook). PDA support is somewhat
shaky and/or broken in both of them and I'd jump on the first one that
really got this right.

-Eamonn