Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer

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Posted by michael on Sunday October 20, 2002 @09:15AM from the ten-paces-turn-and-draw dept.

Kent Brewster writes "In the San Jose Mercury this morning: 'For more than a year, [Mitch] Kapor and his small team have been working on what they're calling an open-source "Interpersonal Information Manager." The software is being designed to securely handle personal e-mail, calendars, contacts and other such data in new ways, and to make it simple to collaborate and share information with others without having to run powerful, expensive server computers.'" Kapor explains his intent in his own words.

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Was it just me.. by irc.goatse.cx+troll · 2002-10-20 09:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Or did anyone else read the headline and think there was yet another outlook vulnerability?

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Evolution.... by colin_n · 2002-10-20 09:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Why not build on the success of evolution?

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1. Re:Evolution.... by Sivar · 2002-10-20 10:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Build on the success of Evolution.
  
  Think about it. ;-)
  
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2. Re:Evolution.... by kubrick · 2002-10-20 13:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes, but the great advantage of the 'Creation' program is that it will only take six days to write! On the seventh day the author will rest.
  
  Evolution, on the other hand, is taking aeons :).
  
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I send you these files to ask you advice by schlach · 2002-10-20 09:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Kinda disappointed... For a second there, I thought it was another email worm that uninstalled Outlook on its way out...

=)
Re:sorry by Psiren · 2002-10-20 09:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Perhaps this is a bit exaggerated but I've simply experienced too many disappointments with software which does not exist yet.

Yeah, I've always had problems trying to get non-existant software to compile. Even when I do it never seems to run.
Nah, the *real* Outlook-Killer by schlach · 2002-10-20 09:26 · Score: 5, Funny

... is Exchange =)
Re:sorry by Entropy_ah · 2002-10-20 09:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah, I've always had problems trying to get non-existant software to compile. Even when I do it never seems to run.

you should probably upgrade to gcc3.2

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Re:sorry by JabberWokky · 2002-10-20 10:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Compiling /dev/random will work, it just takes lots of tries. (And you'd probably want to make sure that ^D forces the end of file rather than trying for the end of that stream).
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They need a copy editor to edit their copy by steveha · 2002-10-20 10:49 · Score: 5, Funny

now overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft's inelegant but overwhelmingly dominant Outlook

This surprisingly clumsy phrase was clumsy but surprising to me.

steveha

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Re:sorry by maw · 2002-10-20 10:57 · Score: 5, Funny

it is just vaporware for me
Hmm, I think you mean Kaporware.

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Re:Python by The+Pim · 2002-10-20 13:03 · Score: 5, Funny

The project is going to be written mostly in Python....
I've been meaning to swap some books in Safari and check out the Learning Python... I guess I finally have some reason....
but why is there no code available?
When you learn Python, you'll find that it's high-level, dynamic nature allow you to accomplish a great deal in only a few lines of code. So no code in Python probably contains more functionality than no code in C.
You'll also find that whitespace is an important part of Python syntax. So look closer--that "no code" could contain a lot of significant whitespace.

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