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Re: a bit offtopic
- To: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)magnifire.net>
- Subject: Re: a bit offtopic
- From: Ely Levy <elylevy(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:39:20 +0300 (IDT)
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>
> The thing is - if a company would have to reverse engineer the Exchange
> protocol stuff - it wouldn't release it for free - or else they'll have 1000
> competitors within a week. They cannot add support for stuff like KOrganizer,
> ical, emacs caldendar because of 1 reason - they are under GPL'd - which
> means they'll have to release source code, which with it - you can find how
> they reversed engineered it and the story of 1000 competitors starts again.
Not true.
see samba for example.
> > > and how much do they think a price are youwilling to pay for this
> > > kind of solution?
> >
> > Not much - it is not essential at all. It's a matter of slightly more
> > convenience and interoperability rather than a must-have.
>
> Well, I was talking about a server solution to replace Exchange, not for the
> client.
>
> Hetz
add to that the fact exchange (as well as I know it)
can't mail filter which is really annoying
did anyone mention palm pilot syncing?
Ely
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