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by nimish 476 days ago
OK. Every major corporation uses Outlook and there is no way I can change that so by not accepting its foibles you are artificially stopping interested contributors who would do it on company time and hardware

It's a very FOSS pathology.
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majewsky 476 days ago
If by "pathology" you mean "we optimize for the comfort of the people already actively engaged in the project instead of hypothetical future contributors", I don't think this argument is as strong as you think it is.

If anything, this kind of excessive legal and process red tape is much more common in enterprise-driven vs. community-driven open source projects.

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nimish 475 days ago
No that's not what I mean, don't put words in my mouth.

> excessive legal and process red tape

I just wanna hit "Send" in my standard email client, not set up pine and debug a mail spooler

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