Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by dotancohen on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:03AM (#17599848)

What well-known and perfectly adequate open source competition did your compiler have in the 70's and 80's?

We're talking about a mail client here. A $120 mail client whose website mentions not a single advantage over the leading open source solution in its market.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by krageon on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:15AM (#17599918)

I assume you are talking about Thunderbird? I used it professionally for two years before deciding it was much, much worse than the alternative (Outlook webmail + a gross CLI tool for other misc email). It's slow, it uses a lot of disk space for bad reasons and just generally operating on a lot of email is a massive pain.

Compared to that, I'd have difficulty believing there are many email clients out there that are actually worse. Even emacs as an email client was better (and it still wasn't great as you can imagine).

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:18AM (#17599936)

A few, for those willing to type them in from university, magazines and hobby club listings.

I guess sendmail and p̵i̵n̵e̵̵ mutt are good enough™.

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