AboutWelcome to Free Software Daily (FSD). FSD is a hub for news and articles by and for the free and open source community. FSD is a community driven site where members of the community submit and vote for the stories that they think are important and interesting to them. Click the "About" link to read more...
I’m the increasingly discontent owner of an Hotmail account (don’t laugh, I subscribed back when Hotmail wasn’t owned by Microsoft). Recently, in order to compete with Google on the Web, Hotmail’s interface was overhauled: it now has a “classic” interface, which works reasonably well but is still rather limited, and a supposedly “Full” interface that should make it the equal of sites like Google Apps and Yahoo Mail/Calendar/etc.
GNU/Linux Web sites are being starved a bit now that Yahoo! removes a section which represents its roots; Hotmail demotes PDF and KIN is a disaster that cannot compete against Linux
Today Yahoo! officially introduced their "open strategy" platform, Y!OS. The Yahoo! Open Strategy platform consists of three development components, the Yahoo! Application Platform, the Yahoo! Social Platform, and the Yahoo! Query Language.
Webmail for Linux Desktops provides a generic mailto: handler and webmail config dialog that lets the user choose his preferred webmail provider on first run and through the desktops Preferences->Webmail facility.
It appears that Google has underestimated the desire for storage with free webmail services, while the competition (Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo) have grasped the issue and are upping capacity. The Google response has been to dribble a little extra into the free Gmail service, while charging up to $500 a year of you want more.
The site claims to be "Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications".
The keyword is "Reality". Unfortunately, there is not a lot of reality or even any facts behind Boycott Novell's articles, which seem to come several times daily. Let me explain:
Downloadable Yahoo pdf describes their procedures for supplying law enforcement with information gleaned from their customers. Currently fourth entry on Crytome's index. Internet privacy? Not guaranteed by Yahoo.
