Re: [Fsfe-uk] A replay of Netscape vs. IE? -- but with a privacy risk

[Simon Waters]

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Neil Darlow wrote:
| Hi,
|
| On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 12:12, Paul Mobbs wrote:
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|>Another front in the on-going battle between Microsoft and Google
is about
|>to be opened.
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|
| And that differs from Microsoft File Find (which eats-up CPU
cycles on a
| regular basis) in what way?

It actually finds stuff in return for the CPU cycles ;)

A case of good marketing by Google, and Microsoft software being too
difficult to use I suspect.

| This is Microsoft, can we expect their search (indexing) engine to
perform
| anything useful without introducing new security flaws?

Given Googles claim to index Outlook/OE, IE, Word, Powerpoint,
Excel, I'm guessing most people getting substantial benefit from
Googles product have already abandoned hope of reliability and
security. To be fair I'm sure it indexes other stuff as well.

True to form Apple will be last to market, but their product will
work better, and look better.

When you say a replay of Netscape v IE Paul, do you mean you are
already predicting Microsoft will reign supreme for a few months
then lose interest, fail to maintain the product and bleed market
share back to Google at an alarming rate.

Meanwhile back here - what do I do if I want similar functionality
on Debian with free software? I have a plethora of web indexing
software - but what if I just want to index my personal filespace
and not mess about with webservers. Swish++ may be reusable, but my
email is all in imap, and I'd like to jump straight to the message
in a Mozilla (or my next mail client) window.

Hmm Mozilla doesn't seem to search encrypted text even when it has
the relevant pass phrase in Enigmail, is this an Enigmail
enhancement request I wonder? And Swish and friends work with Word
documents, but no one seems to mention OpenOffice....
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