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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 is out! For those who haven't heard about it yet, Mozilla Thunderbird is mozilla.org's new standalone mail client and sister product to Mozilla Firebird. According to MozillaZine's article on the release, new features include 'a redesigned Options dialogue, spell checker improvements, enhancements to the default theme and better performance and stability'. More information can be found at the Mozilla Thunderbird Project Page and in the release notes (which include the important information that a clean install is vital). Builds are available for Windows (7.3Mb), Mac OS (11.1Mb) and Linux (9.5Mb) or you can download the source (29.1Mb) and build it yourself for extra geek points."
With Microsoft confused as to the devlopment state of Outlook Express, This could be a golden oppertunity for the open source community to gain a significant foothold, because Microsoft might finally be fixing their bugs. I know it sounds crazy, but why else would they push everything back so far?
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Most people that are stuck using exchange are stuck using it because of shared folders, scheduling, and contacts. Not just the email portion of Exchange.
I haven't seen any other solution that works as well for colaboritive calendering. For instance you can tell Outlook to schedule an appointment and invite a bunch of people, if there is a time where everyone is available that day that is not the time you specified it will ask you if you want to reschedule to that time. It also works well when you want to intetgrate meeting room checkout, you just add the meeting rooms as participants and they automatically accept and mark themselves as busy for that time period. If so setup you can easily see when a meeting room is open. It also scales to any size organization which most other systems do not.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Off to install Thunderbird 0.2 on the machines of all the extended family... boo free tech support. :(
I've got to say: if you're installing alpha software on your family's machines, you're just begging to do free tech support.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Okay, the connector is 69 dollars. Not cheap and not exactly expensive. You're living in a Microsoft world but you like Linux, why not just buy it? At one time in my life I had a nice foreign car and I had to pay extra for parts, labor, etc. To me it was an opportunity cost worth paying for. I didn't want another Chevy so I paid a little extra. In the long run it made me a bit happier and it was nice owning something somewhat rare/different.
Just out of curioustiy: at what price-point will most people in your situation actually buy the dang thing? What if it was 29.99? How cheap are you?
Or better yet why doesn't Ximian offer a student discount?
It blows my mind that hard-core linux types will put 10 hours into figuring out some trivial problem but won't blow 70 dollars on a piece of software that will let them use Exchange.
"So Ted, what did you do today?"
"I wrote a script that gets my email from OWA 2000 and puts it in a comma deliminated file on one of my linux partitions. Then I wrote an app that will take this file and run a fake POP3 server for me to get the emails. Pretty good eh?"
"How much time did you spend on this, Ted?"
"I dunno, 3 or 4 hours."
"Dont you bill $50 an hour."
"Yep."
"Why dont you just buy the damn connector?"
*long pause*
"Cause Stallman says proprietary software is bad? Oh man, I need help."