-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> Perhaps WV trained under DJB :) > > I'd actually give the silver medal to Sam Varshavchik (Courier). > Maybe the gold. Not had much conversation with Sam, but he does seem to ignore you unless he knows you from what I saw on one of his mailing lists (which I've not been on for bout a year now). > More likely licensing issues, fact that it hasn't been officially I could never understand that, especially since hes abandoned it and has no intentions of making it open source, but knowing DJB it doesnt suprise me, one would wonder though, if all the people who wrote 'modernising' patches for it, had not, maybe, just maybe DJB would have maintained it. > maintained for almost 10 years, and highly unconventional design and > coding philosphy. Yeah, but thats Qmail, not Sendmail and it's still default in almost all, last time I tested SuSE however, postfix was installed as default, but since Novells suck deal with the devil, and the pending GPL v3, that might be useless soon. > Absolutely. The social questions that come up are interesting, and I > don't see anyone really address them (or they get ridiculed as being > too touchy-feely or something like that) -- authors get a lot of dumb > questions, and when you throw in even a reasonably smart one that may > not seem in sync with project goals, the author, having long ago tired > of all the other ill-thought questions, might easily, or even rudely, > laugh at it too. More responsibility needs to be squared on the I've been known to be guilty of that myself, so used to petty stupid questions (that are even in the docs) when someone asks me a question of sense I've snapped at them, and then eaten humble pie when I realised what I did a day later :) But I know some people just want you to change it just because of some small petty thing that doesn't affect 99.999r% of the users, and doing so might have adverse afects elsewhere so you don't, but yet they continue to voice their objections, well I say "no one is holding a gun at your head making you use it"... -- Cheers Res -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGitLLsWhAmSIQh7MRAjKGAJ9QP5IsIbhrpW7G/yqRTsJKx4ZoawCfZr84 xDYTr+TUCQy8MwPL+33fC3M= =+Lrv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
