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"I mean really... Outside of a few common applications like mail software and web servers, is there any open souce software that is anything more than a poorly done and semi-functional clone of a commercial product? Not really."
Well, which no opensource desktop system has a network- and protocol transparent IO architecture like KIO?
"I mean really... Outside of a few common applications like mail software and web servers, is there any open souce software that is anything more than a poorly done and semi-functional clone of a commercial product? Not really."
Well, which no opensource desktop system has a network- and protocol transparent IO architecture like KIO?
Cheers,
Kevin