Linux and Pan are open source (was: Re: Agent isn't open source.)

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:47:09 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
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vallor wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:10:14 -0500, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote in
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
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there are a finite number of known NNTP clients in the
universe, Agent stands out among them.

>
I won't even ask what makes it so spectacular. I've never used it and have
no desire to. Pan does what I need.

>
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Agent is a commercial app, fully featured, giving one a GUI interface
to Usenet.  It allows me to efficiently, professionally deal with the
NGs.

 
Riiiiight.
 
Let's take an example:  how many news servers can you configure
it to use? (I have three set up in Pan.)
 
Meanwhile, your "commercial app" isn't open source, and isn't
even being maintained anymore -- not for 10 years!  Booo!
 
Besides:  Gravity is better.
 
But all this is moot.  We might as well be discussing the
"one true ice cream".  Different people have different
preferences.  That's what makes Unix so nice: choice.
 

everyone on unix is always stuck fixing something ,
i haven't got time to figure out ,
if my ubuntu goes woo woo , i deleted everything except ,
the stuff i need to post with

I know a grandma who posts on Usenet, with Pan, using Linux.

And so do you.

While Pan may not be for everyone, I like it -- it's flexible.
I have the source, and I can run a script as a signature.
It also supports little geegaws like X-Face and Face.

And I like Linux because it stays out of my way, and doesn't
spy on me.  I've been running it since 1992 in one way or another,
and it has been my desktop for most of that time.  (I did run
Windows 7 as a desktop for a year or two, but abandoned it because
of its inflexibility.)

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