Pine in Hoary

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sat Jan 22 13:57:18 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:05 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> At one point you argue that Ubuntu is on one side of a "moral fence".
> I thought that Ubuntu was intended to be accessible to all. If that
> means incorporating a stunningly useful e-mailer, for example that is
> PERFECTLY LEGAL, then by all means they should do so. But, I suppose
> you'd rather have a system that can be used by only the experts than
> one which can be used by all (that way the experts can gouge the "rest
> of us" for help, eh?).

Ubuntu already includes a perfectly usable, entirely free (in both
senses) email client. Why include something as nasty as Pine?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org





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