<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Eric Mill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@sunlightfoundation.com" target="_blank">eric@sunlightfoundation.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That directory is craziness. This is what they list for email software:<div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Email-software" target="_blank">http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Email-software</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>162 options, listed in alphabetical order with text-only descriptions, and you have to click on a link to see anything past Ba-.</div><div><br></div><div>If I'm looking to break out of Gmail, I need several recommendations, with an emphasis on what they look like, how they work, and how painful I can expect my transition to be. I need articles, not directories.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Generally speaking, while I appreciate the FSF and their legal work, I've come to expect very little from them in encouraging the development and proliferation of pleasant, usable free software.</div>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I agree, and I know that something that is a mess doesn't motivate people well, but the FSF is definitely working on improving everything and making it not a mess. They've made progress in the last year or so improving it.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The best most organized thing is <a href="http://prism-break.org/">http://prism-break.org/</a> but that's for online mostly, currently doesn't have stuff like survey tools or word processing, although that could probably be added.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As I've been saying, the most *practical* but itself non-Open is <a href="http://alternativeto.net">alternativeto.net</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">
--<br>Aaron Wolf<br><a href="http://wolftune.com/" target="_blank">wolftune.com</a></div></div>
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