"Free software is a good thing, its empowering, I might even go as far as to say its the way things should be done. One of the biggest threats to free software at the moment is “web services”, or if you’re an airy fairy Web 2.0 person “The Cloud” (airy could, geddit?). The reason its such of a threat is because not only most open source advocates, but also a lot of free software fans are using these propretiary, remotely hosted applications [...] I decided to write a free software replacement for GMail [...] So, please tell me, am I doing something valuable? Is my code/overall design good or completely crap? Does anyone else want to use it [...] Most importantly, would anyone be willing to help me develop it..."