Looking to replace Evolution

Rob Brown-Bayliss uncertain.genius at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 18:16:44 UTC 2006


On 11/10/06, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> With Novell/SuSE getting into bed with Microsoft, I'm considering using
> a different mail client - but, this is no easy task.  I don't know of
> any apps that have the same features that Evolution does.

I don't understand your problem.  Evolution is not owned by microsoft,
it's not developed  by microsoft, it is GPL'ed, no one can take it
away from you...

Here is a random comment block from the source code to Evolution:

/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: t; c-basic-offset: 8 -*- */
/* Evolution addressbook - Address Conduit
 *
 * Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation
 * Copyright (C) 2000 Ximian, Inc.
 *
 * Authors: Eskil Heyn Olsen <deity at eskil.dk>
 *          JP Rosevear <jpr at ximian.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 */


-- 
Rob




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