On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 05:36:20PM -0300, Pablo Manuel Rizzo wrote:
On 12/29/06, Hans-Christian Otto c.otto@lab9.de wrote:
In other words, the gmail style view is a killer feature for some people, so if roundcube can offer it as a choice that would be great from my point of view. Traditional threading is also a nice choice and it would be great if they could both be integrated.
Well, I guess that one should check whether google has a patent for this kind of viewing mails. I don't know, but I'd say you should check this before starting to implement it... Just my few cents, Greetings.
That's ridiculous. A patent on that! Makes no sense. And why should I care? I would implement thousands of webmails with that functionallity, and that's it, they couldn't fight against that. Duroty already have this functionallity, they say Duroty is the OpenSource Gmail, and they even have a Google-group. No, I don't care patents, I make the software Free.
I haven't looked to see if there is a patent, but your blustering is not really useful if there is. And a patent on that idea would make sense. Before GMail I had never seen conversation threading in that form. It probably meets all of the patent requirements.
That said, it would be a nice feature. But like with any other project it pays to be careful.