On 12/29/06, Sam Nilsson lists@servingpeace.com wrote:
A lack of commitment from the roundcube devs on this feature should not stop Free Software either! If you were to build and offer a nicely integrated gmail-like threading feature for roundcube as free software, I would support adding it to the project and probably others would as well. I like how roundcube is simple, but gmail-style threading is a very unique and well liked feature AFAIK.
Yes, you're right, but it should be easiest if roundcube devs would have that feature in their to-do list. I have really few time, I'm member of the UTUTO XS GNU+Linux core team and devel team and we have a lot of work with the distro.
Unless roundcube has patent lawyers that they can consult in the states, there isn't much that a small development group can do about potential patents. Someone could ask google if they hold any related patents I suppose, but volunteer geeks can't very well screen their work for patent violations because there are too many patents that would need to be examined. It just doesn't seem practical to me. For all I know roundcube could be "violating" any number of patents as we speak.
Anyone agree? Disagree?
I agree :-)