[Leaplist] Re: Microsoft Suggest Linux Hotmail Users Use Outlook Express (long)

[Kyle Gonzales]

On Feb 4, 2008 10:11 AM, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008 01:28, Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> > It is only your opinion that they "suck".  I find them more than
> > adequate for my uses.
> >
> > If you have more information on why I might be led to form a similar
> > opinion as yours, I am open to hearing it.
>
> I am sorry my opinion wounded you so.

It did not.  I was just clarifying that your opinion of X11-based chat
clients was far from a factual statement, and that you had nothing
else to add to help qualify your opinion that might be of use.

For my part, Pigdin (and Gaim before it) had preformed admirably for
me on Linux and Windows platforms.  It has also been a very useful
tool when introducing people on Windows to open source, by
demonstrating things that they did not think could be done (this being
the aggregation of numerous chat platofrms under one application).
Trillian, which does something similar on Windows, is not open source,
and still does not support Jabber (and therefore Google Talk).  A
number of Trillian users on Windows dumped it for Gaim/Pidgin for this
reason.  It has also been useful to have the same chat client on both
Windows and Linux, and along with OpenOffice and Firefox, has made it
much easier convert people to Linux by converting their applications
in Windows first.

I do find it annoying that many like to state that something "sucks"
when it really means "There is nothing wrong with it, I just prefer
something different".

The only things that truly "suck" are most people's opinions.

Then again, that is only my opinion.

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