OT: "proprietary" software

[Chris Mohler]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> Piper:
>>
>>
>>> comparative observations on Thunderbird? It is proprietary SW so am not
>>> considering it but I am curious.
>>>
>>
>> Thunderbird is proprietary software and you are therefore not using it?
>> That is an interesting statement for someone who is using a mail client
>> identifying itself as "Microsoft Outlook Express" to send this very
>> statement.
>>
>>
>    As said before, Thunderbird is made by the same people who make
> Firefox. Both are made for Linux and Windows up to the latest model. It
> is free and you download it from a web page and it is licensed under the
> GNU standard. So please go away.

FF and Thunderbird are both licensed under the MPL (Mozilla Public
License) - not GPL.

As for "please go away" - well at least the original post started
on-topic, which is more than I can say for some other posters...

Chris