Re: [tdf-discuss] Co-working with Moz, etc

On 2011-01-01 1:43 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent
> program such as outlook.

Well, I disagree, but there is no way to prove one of us is right, so...

> There are one of three ways it can be done.
>
> 1) fork something like evolution which has all that done and integrate it
> into the LO suite

Evolution is extremely buggy, *especially* on Windows, but yes, even on
*nix... Yes, there are many people who run it without problems, but
there are far more who complain of constant crashes and bugs, even on
the stablest of systems (otherwise)...

> 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena.

Thunderbird+Lightning would be the best other choice here...not perfect
by any stretch, but the only viable FLOSS alternative on Windows at the
moment, at least that I am aware of...

> the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size, which
> would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth.

Thunderbird+Lightning is not that big...

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Best regards,

Charles

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