E-Postage for Linux? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Monday August 25, 2003 @12:13PM from the penguins-and-mailmen dept.

tyen asks: "While it's not dead yet (shades of Monty Python), Internet postage on Linux appears to be missing. The biggest player's software is Windows-only, and the other players mimic this requirement. You would be amazed how many businesses will dedicate a computer to printing off postage and shipping labels, why pay an annoying Microsoft tax for such an appliance application? Besides, these Windows-based solutions are heavily GUI-centric, and any integration into Linux-based automated processes would be unacceptably brittle. Has anyone successfully set up their business to print off e-postage from Linux or any other Open Source platform?"

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GUI does not imply !(batchable||scriptable) by borgboy · 2003-08-25 15:17 · Score: 3, Insightful

...or otherwise unusable through automation. Many widely used, widely emulated GUI applications are usable through a command line or script interface.

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meh.