Day: November 12, 2006

Telling me what I should blog?

I dislike the trend of people whining what we should blog because we get on pgo. It’s our personal blog, pgo is just a user of our blogs.

If you are interested in filtered opinions and stories, I suggest you watch FOX news in stead of reading our blogs or create a derivative of pgo where you’ll filter on subject.

I hope this will stop people who piss about what we should be writing. Like telling us that we can’t write about Novell vs. Microsoft, that we can’t write about politics, that we can’t write about our opinion about Fedora, that we can’t … I have news for you guys: we can write about it. As much as we want and as often as we do.

Larry Flints lawyer once said it correct: it’s the price you have to pay for freedom. We will not stop exercising our freedoms.

Your friendly freedom of speech supporter.

Debian preview packages

Øystein Gisnås created Debian packages for tinymail. Again, it’s not a release nor is it a promise about the API, it’s just a preview. It’s also not an E-mail client. Tinymail is a framework, it’s not an E-mail client by itself. It has a demo written in C and one in Python.

I haven’t yet tested the packages myself and I strongly advise to build from source code or to rebuild the packages with what is current in the repository.

ps. For those who are now going to make blog templates of how I blog about tinymail: note that I have to keep repeating that tinymail is not an E-mail client because I simply keep getting E-mails from people who wanted me to create an E-mail client so much that they started believing that tinymail is that promised E-mail client. Tinymail is primarily focused at software developers who are going to create E-mail clients for mobile & embedded appliances. I repeat, I repeat, I repeat.

I’ve even read “it’s unusable because it doesn’t have a ui for configuring E-mail accounts”-like comments. Being a software developer who is going to use tinymail, that’s your task. Right? I fear that with the packages for GPE and Debian, that type of traffic is going to increase (more normal users will try it). That’s why I repeat, I repeat and I repeat.