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After residing in unix-land for almost a year I decided to come back to Mac OSX just 2 days ago, and after re-downloading my purchased apps, the announcement by

After residing in unix-land for almost a year I decided to come back to Mac OSX just 2 days ago, and after re-downloading my purchased apps, the announcement by the Sparrow team was the second mail I picked up. Fuck. Thinking back, in unix-land no such jokes were pulled. Something abandoned? another trooper taking over. How the $#&% can you charge money for something _non-open-source_ and then just leave it to rot? I would pay a hundred bucks for a similar app (or a monthly fee) if I'd be assured that the developers were dedicated to ME and THEIR PRODUCT. Sparrow is above average. Congrats, I loved you for that. But you sinked your goddamn ship before it got half way. I'm only this pissed off because it could have been so much more. I will wait and see what glorious work you do for Google. I (and all the people who paid you money) await your work with great anticipation. Good luck.

Teckla 14y ago
Just a few nitpicks: "After residing in unix-land for almost a year I decided to come back to Mac OSX..." OS X is a UNIX. A real, actual UNIX. "...in unix-land no such jokes were pulled." I am going to guess you were using Linux, which is not, in fact, a UNIX. For what it's worth, I spent some time in Linux land. Over the course of a year: 1. One update left my system non-booting. After considerable research, I think I discovered it was a grub/kernel incompatibility. 2. An upgrade left my system non-booting. It was an Ubuntu upgrade from one version to the next, which failed with a mysterious and non-helpful error. 3. Another update caused my external monitor to no longer display the desktop correctly. I was forced to use the 1024x600 display on my netbook instead. I am now very skeptical of Linux (on the desktop) land. All these issues resulted in a considerable time expense for me. Now I'm thinking I'm happy to pay $x for operating systems like OS X or Windows...

Teckla 14y ago

Just a few nitpicks: "After residing in unix-land for almost a year I decided to come back to Mac OSX..." OS X is a UNIX. A real, actual UNIX. "...in unix-land no such jokes were pulled." I am going to guess you were using Linux, which is not, in fact, a UNIX. For what it's worth, I spent some time in Linux land. Over the course of a year: 1. One update left my system non-booting. After considerable research, I think I discovered it was a grub/kernel incompatibility. 2. An upgrade left my system non-booting. It was an Ubuntu upgrade from one version to the next, which failed with a mysterious and non-helpful error. 3. Another update caused my external monitor to no longer display the desktop correctly. I was forced to use the 1024x600 display on my netbook instead. I am now very skeptical of Linux (on the desktop) land. All these issues resulted in a considerable time expense for me. Now I'm thinking I'm happy to pay $x for operating systems like OS X or Windows...