And I like that the author of Zoë used that quote to head up said manifesto. Two defining features of computer geeks are 1) that sort of self-awareness, and 2) that even our awkwardly phrased manifestos are eminently practical.
It's not "Workers of the world, unite!", but the workers of the world have yet to unite, whereas by all accounts Zoë is both client and server. (That reminds me, I need to talk about The Star Fraction.)
I had all this in my head yesterday, but it didn't really fit in with the silly in-joke I had for the Zoë link so I didn't write it, which is a shame because last night my page was visited by the author of Zoë (he uses a stats service which shows up in my referer log); and he probably won't be back to read my equally silly but lengthier analysis. I still haven't tried Zoe, though (it's proprietary and there are warnings about problems running on Linux and in non-IE browsers).
Tue May 21 2002 07:31:
I find it amusing that this fellow had the following to say about Zoë:
"Don't be put off by the awkwardly phrased manifesto, download it, and try it out."
Zoë is a email client. It's also a email server. And a long term
archive. And a search engine. And an application server. All that at
once on your desktop. Or server. Or both. Or it doesn't matter because
client and server are the same.
Tue May 21 2002 07:43:
A Mike-ish way to deny something:
I can neither confirm nor neither confirm nor deny.
