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Re: a bit offtopic



"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:

>      a. I think using outlook to schedule appointments is a mortal sin, which
>         strengthens Microsoft's hegemony. I always get my appointments by
>         email (outlook does that automatically), and if I want to confirm or
>         cancel, I email the person who wrote the announcement. Maybe free
> 	software developers think like me, and wouldn't want to touch Outlook
>         with a ten-foot pole?

Hear, hear!

>      c. Maybe it's harder to reverse-engineer the protocol than I
>         think...

Intuitively, I tend to agree with you that it should not be
hard. After all, it all goes through emails, doesn't it? Hetz, who has
done some research, disagrees. Hetz, maybe you will tell us what
difficulties you see?

Btw, another point made by the KOrganizer documentation is that
Outlook can be told to produce vCalendar format. Can anyone confirm
that? preferably someone who runs a mixed network with Exchange and is
able to test how it works? If it does, the question will be reduced to
convincing the suits and/or the sysadmin to do that.

>    So Microsoft itself can one-day release a free outlook client for Linux
>    or Unix. You'll be out-of-business on the same day.

They'll do it only after Hetz grows to Netscape's proportions, for the
explicit purpose of driving him out of business... ;-)

> Then why are you against releasing the *clients* (which is what the original
> poster was after anyway) freely?

Ariel, not me. I said I wanted the protocol, not a client.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org 
If it ain't broken, it hasn't got enough features yet.

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