Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Simon Matter wrote:
> The nice thing about Thunderbird is that it works fine. Same goes for
> recent kmail versions. Mulberry and PINE may do it better, but they don't
> look better.

We are talking Unix here (industrial strenght tools, focus on doing things
right, etc) or are we talking "Microsoft-based Professional Software" here
(the "MAIL FROM: a at b.c" crowd)?

Not that Thunderbird is that bad.  It is *not*.  But it really saddens me to
see more and more developers get caught on the "pretty is more important
than functionality" mentality.  This has nothing to do with Thunderbird.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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