JOB POSTING: Application Evangelist

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, beartooth wrote:
> If we may make suggestions, I nominate Pine; the rpm at 
> washington.edu/pine is for x86 -- and one of the posters on 
> gmane.linux.yellowdog.general gave a site, back in early May '05, where 
> he had posted an rpm that worked. It still does.
>
> As you can tell from the participation on the pine list gmane carries, 
> and especially from comp.mail.pine, this app has lots of users, 
> especially *ix people.

  Yes, and I'm one of them (I'm even using MacPine right now, deleted 
Mail.app the second I got my new laptop). I have been a Pine user for 
years and I really *love* the interface. However Pine isn't very distro 
friendly - they have a braindead license. For example, if a distro found a 
security problem with Pine, they're not allowed to ship patched binarys 
without written permission from UofW. Instead, they have to either wait 
for UofW to fix it and ship their binaries, or ship source or patches. 
This is really not acceptable.

  I think it's about time that someone started a petition to tell the UofW 
folks to get their heads out of their collective butts and licence Pine 
under a saner license. Now, my primary mail client is Evolution (which is 
a bloated piece of crap - probably going to switch to Kmail) and I'm going 
to probably swith to Mutt for my shell/text only mail client soon.


Cheers,

Chris