There's an interesting poll over at OSNews.com which asks "which OSS application, in your opinion, has achieved high standards, performance, features and ease of use when compared to the best of breed of the closed source world." So far Apache is in the lead with Mozilla pulling into a respectable second place. I'm surprised that Open Office and Gaim aren't doing better. I use both and think they do a fine job when compared to their commercial equivalents.
Posted by asa at May 29, 2003 11:14 PMI would certainly agree that OpenOffice.org should do better, but I'm not so sure about GAIM. It sure is a useful program, and is my messaging client of choice under Linux, but I still don't like it hugely. Maybe it's something to do with GTK+, which I'm not overly keen on.
Posted by: Neil T. on May 30, 2003 04:49 AMI don't like Gaim. It doesn't import my server-side contact list and it doesn't seem to support other character codings, so Swedish letters are stripped.
Posted by: David Tenser on May 30, 2003 09:28 AM