[AktiviX] pine/imap

r7 r7 at riseup.net
Tue Dec 16 22:11:47 UTC 2003


On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Robin Green wrote:

> Um, sorry, pine isn't actually Free Software! It's only Free as in
> no cost. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that it's FS just
> because it runs on Linux and it's free of charge. But it doesn't allow
> modification and distribution of your modified versions, so it's not
> actually Free Software.

thanks robin for this. i realize this and am playing around in pine
because mutt scares the pants off me.

i suppose the other reasons for going pine [at the moment] are:

[a] riseup offer it.

[b] i've never done imap before and that added to mutt seemed too steep a
learning curve.

mmmm. may have to have a rethink.

r7
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