Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Alain Williams
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:39:49AM +0300, Uldis Pakuls wrote: > I have used a lots of differer OS. First one was Solars, the IBM OS/2, > then AIX, Then came "a shock therapy" - DOS. For a long time I can't > believe that someone developed OS on which you can run only one program > in same time.:)

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Uldis Pakuls
On 08/18/2010 05:54 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:12:11 -0500 > Rick Romero articulated: > >> Yuck. The problem with such a generalization as 'making things >> easy', is that to do so the system needs to make decisions for the >> user. >> >> The reason I stay away from Windows is

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Spyros Tsiolis
--- On Wed, 18/8/10, Luigi Rosa wrote: > From: Luigi Rosa > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows > To: "Dovecot Mailing List" > Date: Wednesday, 18 August, 2010, 18:32 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dennis Clarke sa

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Steve Lindemann
Luigi Rosa wrote: Dennis Clarke said the following on 18/08/10 15:41: "Open source and Free software should be as easy as Windows" Windows is not "easy" is "common". In UK driving to the left is "easy" and driving to the right is "hard". In the continentale Europer is the opposite. "eas

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Clarke said the following on 18/08/10 15:41: > "Open source and Free software should be as easy as Windows" Windows is not "easy" is "common". In UK driving to the left is "easy" and driving to the right is "hard". In the continentale Eur

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: Jerry Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:03 am Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows To: dovecot@dovecot.org > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:27 -0400 > Dennis Clarke articulated: > > > Sometimes things are not and that is

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:27 -0400 Dennis Clarke articulated: > Sometimes things are not and that is okay. GNOME is not XFCE or > Fluxbox but we have freedom to choose either. Perhaps by "light" you > mean you don't need 32G of memory and a dual socket 12-core Opteron > 6100 series machine with s

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Robert Brockway
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Dennis Clarke wrote: Let's hope the big corporate world never calls up Mr. T ( dovecot author ) and tosses a billion dollars at him. A few million sure ... but not a billion. Otherwise dovecot would be wrecked by the greedy pigs at Oracle or IBM or Apple etc. Just my opini

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:12:11 -0500 Rick Romero articulated: > Yuck. The problem with such a generalization as 'making things > easy', is that to do so the system needs to make decisions for the > user. > > The reason I stay away from Windows is because it tends to make bad > decisions. Ever

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Rick Romero
Quoting "Dennis Clarke" : From a "Standards" thread I saw this : "Linux should be as easy as Windows" I would like to point out that this is a thinking problem. A shift in thinking is required. That should say : "Open source and Free software should be as easy as Windows" In

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
[ sorry for the slight OT ] > On 18/08/2010 15:41, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > From a "Standards" thread I saw this : > > > > "Linux should be as easy as Windows" > > > > I would like to point out that this is a thinking problem. A shift > in thinking is required. > > > > That should say

Re: [Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Simone Caruso
On 18/08/2010 15:41, Dennis Clarke wrote: > From a "Standards" thread I saw this : "Linux should be as easy as Windows" I would like to point out that this is a thinking problem. A shift in thinking is required. That should say : "Open source and Free software should be as easy a

[Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows

2010-08-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
>From a "Standards" thread I saw this : "Linux should be as easy as Windows" I would like to point out that this is a thinking problem. A shift in thinking is required. That should say : "Open source and Free software should be as easy as Windows" In this way we allow someone run