[Alpine-info] formats for both Alpine and Thunderbird

[Mark Crispin]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, David Morris wrote:

> I'd love to see a cost comparison for UW's costs supporting the 

> pine/alpine/imap tools we love vs. a commercial solution from MS, etc.


UW is in the process of converting to Outlook and Exchange.
 	http://www.washington.edu/computing/uwexchange/


> Attributing this to a conspiracy rather than good business logic just doesn't 

> hold water.


I was specifically told, by both Microsoft and Google, that their goals do 
NOT include standards compliance; and furthermore that their products will 
NEVER be fully compliant because that would make it easier for customers 
to use competitors' products.

You may call that "good business logic".  I call it conspiracy.  The US 
Justice Department and the European Union feel the same way.  Microsoft is 
a convicted monopolist.

-- Mark --

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