Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer

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.

Comments

Re:Evolution....

[Helter]

He specifically said that PDA synchronization is one of the features he intends to include in the product. So no hacking needed.

Re:I think you may have misspelled something.

[CathedralRulz]

Yeah - I just moded you two both up a point. Some /. moderators are total assholes. In fact, 90% of them are total assholes.
For example, note that this post will be moded down to -1 or so, rather than saving those points to mod something worthwhile up to a 5.
These freaks would rather urinate on themselves than ask to use the restroom of someone with a different opinion than their libertine/anarchist fascism.

Re:Was it just me..

[HiThere]

I can understand liking MSExplorer. It's pretty. It's slick. It integrates well with the operating system.

However, it's shoddy security has cost the country billions. Probably literally, though there's really no way to count. You can count parts of the cost, and say "Yeah, that was expensive", but there's no easy way to count the entire cost.

IE Explorer should DIE! This isn't just a licensing problem, like I have with most MS products. IE Explorer is vile! One of the things I most despise about the Mac is that it comes with IE Explorer installed, and is so configured that if you remove it you break things. (A totally unnecessary choice on their part, but $$ will buy cooperation.)

IEExplorer damages people who never come near any MS product. It probably damages people who don't even use the internet (at least if they own any stock).

So, yes, there's a lot to like about IE Explorer. And this doesn't excuse it. I like bell peppers, too. But I'm allergic to them, so I don't eat them, or things that contain them. A machine running IE is like a kid with the bubble-boy syndrome. It's immune system isn't working, so it needs to be kept isolated from everyone else. IE Explorer pokes a hole through the bubble.