Monthly Archives: October 2006

links for 2006-10-12

QUALCOMM Launches Project in Collaboration with Mozilla Foundation to Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program
Clearly the best way to EOL a much-loved product. I wonder how much current Eudora code will flow into (and improve) Thunderbird…
(tags: mozilla qualcomm opensource email thunderbird eudora)

Highly Anticipated ”Portland” Ready for Primetime
“unified / common interfaces”… I raised concerns […]

Hu-la-la-la

Since Hula was first announced, the #1 question we’ve gotten has been, “will it work with my postfix/Maildir setup?”
Clearly, it is clueful and savvy users that are interested in Hula!
From what Dave showed us during his demo at the Boston Summit, Hula Lite will be a ball-breakingly, jaw-snappingly, lemur-impersonatingly worthy successor to existing, spotty FLOSS […]

QoTD: Steve Garrity

People pay a lot of money for whitespace these days.” — Steve Garrity, at lunch today
Bonus quote: “What’s with this theatre? It’s like we’re all here in Marie Antoinette’s vagina!” — Jon Stewart, live at the Wang Theatre in Boston last Friday

QoTD: Raven Zachary

As we’ve seen with open-source projects before, with market share comes business opportunity.” — Raven Zachary on Open Source business models, in this case, Ubuntu

Boston Summit: Jon Stewart on Friday

No chance I’m missing out on this… I just noticed that Jon Stewart is performing here in Boston on Friday night!
Go buy tickets for the 7pm performance, and we’ll have dinner afterward at a nearby restaurant — any locals have suggestions?
Update: Oh maaaan. The booking agent called me to say that the 7pm performance had been overbooked […]

QoTD: Jeff Mahoney

The solution for replacing an aging file system isn’t to switch to a brand new unproven file system, but rather a proven one with a clear upgrade path. That file system is ext3.” — Jeff Mahoney of SUSE Labs, proposing a return to sanity