Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:54:10 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <044a01c29425$8c50edd0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3DDF7691.22726.4FCB4F2@localhost> <02dc01c29338$320168c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE00E4A.1B6A0D8A@mindspring.com> <031001c29356$4b383300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE06EEF.F321ECDA@mindspring.com> <037c01c293b0$8dabaa00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE0C075.B77B1A0D@mindspring.com> <03a001c293b5$19807d90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE17114.D6B9F91D@mindspring.com>
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Terry writes: > Since you claim you are not a Microsoft employee, > why is your ignorance of the facts surrounding > the implementation details of a Microsoft product, > which is only released in binary form, worth > anything at all? My _ignorance_ of facts isn't worth anything; however, I'm not ignorant in this case. I supported Microsoft e-mail products for years, and I read the source code (well, part of it). > How do you know this? I supported Microsoft's e-mail products for years. > Minimally, the RFC822 encoder, the MIME encoder, > the SMTP client code, and the address book list > and list insertion code. That is indeed minimal. I cannot confirm or deny, as I don't remember, and I don't have access to that information now. But I don't recall it being written by anyone outside. > Since you "aren't employed by Microsoft", the > only thing you can personally know about the mail > clients is their UI, and not the implementation > details, right? No. There are other possibilities. Ponder on that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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