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Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook

Posted by michael on from the stormy-weather dept.

MS IE Bug Finder writes "Although Microsoft is dismissing Mozilla Lightning, the article indicates the combination of Thunderbird (mail) with Sunbird (calendaring) should be a worthy opponent against Outlook by the middle of the new year." Reader EvilStein adds a link to the Lightning Q&A.

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  1. Re:It's not a worthy opponent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Illustrator 8 and Illustrator 10. Do a search and replace for text which is on a locked layer. Locks the machine up every. Single. Time.

  2. An IDEA for GNU or other OSS orgs by beforewisdom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only reason I am not using sunbird, or another OSS Personal organization tool is that yahoo doesn't support iCal ( I have written to them suggesting it:
    http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/my/cgi_feedbac k).

    Even though I like downloading my email I use yahoo because the convenience of getting to my information anywhere is compelling.

    I even pay ( gladly ) for pop access

    I would love to use the sunbird client and the other OSS PIM tools in combination with yahoo so that I could download ( and update ) my PIM stuff anywhere.

    Even more, I would love to pay GNU or some other OSS org for this rather then paying yahoo.

    If GNU or another OSS org implemented this kind of yahoo-like service ( using all OS software ) it would kill 4 birds with one Free(dom) software stone.

    1. I get the services I want

    2. GNU gets money, which it always needs

    3. GNU employs programmers to build an maintain
    GNUYahoo ( GNUwho ? ) -- a worthy thing these
    days in itself

    4. Free(dom) & OS software gets showcased and put
    into use.

    Almost Geeks have some sort of webmail account and would love to support GNU or another OSS org rather then ________, especially if they implement featurs geeks want like better spam filtering.

    If these sites were made user friendly GNU would get a bonus____ giving something to ordinary people that they would like____ which would make GNU, as well as Free(dom) software relevant to their lives.

    GNU and OSS especially needs this if they want to fight and win political battles.

    Just a thought