[kdepim-users] Yet Another Troubled KMail2 Migration Successful (Maybe) (For Now)

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Saturday, July 06, 2013 05:15:34 AM Till Adam <adam at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> People like Vishesh are working tirelessly to improve things. It's
> difficult work, though.
> 
> You know, it's one of those things where there is a relatively big risk
> and a long-ish period of inconvenience, but the upside is so large, it
> is worth it in the long run. Many of us old farts remember how painful
> it was to run Linux, as recently as 5 years ago. Now it's the
> predominant OS in the world, if you look across the whole device
> spectrum, and the world is richer for it. My ultrabook runs flawlessly
> with the current OpenSuse, full feature set of the hardware and great
> perfomance. And I did nothing to make that work. Very different from
> not that not long ago.
> 
> We (as KDE) are taking a risk on things like Nepomuk and also Akonadi.
> We are paying the price. But, unlike Thunderbird, Evolution, Lotus
> Notus, MS Outlook or really anything else out there, we have the basis
> for something great for many years going forward. Thanks for hanging in
> there with us, those of you who do :).

Well, while you kids fuss with all this bright & shiny, there are folks 
that still need to do things like send emails, which for me is currently 
not possible with your bright & shiny, even though it was yesterday. 5 
years from now we might care again, but until then we still need to do 
work. 
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