• Open Source does not mean easily re-compile-able (Was: Command Language

    From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to Kalevi Kolttonen on Fri Dec 27 14:35:52 2024
    In article <vkmbsj$3kvjq$1@dont-email.me>,
    Kalevi Kolttonen <kalevi@kolttonen.fi> wrote:
    ...
    Thunderbird is open source, maybe even free software.

    I am sure it is extremely easy to either remove the
    "reply" button or to bind it to the "followup" function.

    I doubt it is any simple matter to find it in the massive source code, much less to figure out how to fix it, much less figure out how to successfully re-build (and test!) it after making your changes.

    Generally, most complicated GUI software, even if technically Open Source,
    is difficult, if not impossible, for ordinary people using ordinary
    machines, to re-build from source. Among other things, you will generally
    end up spending many hours, if not days, getting all the dependencies installed.

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