I really feel like the concerns over all the google things are a subset of all 3. 1. I do think that theres a certain comfort in knowing once you unplug that cable from the back all your data can be yours and yours alone but i think we're moving towards a system where that will no longer be an option no matter what.
2. Privacy, this is a big one, i really feel like for alot of us theres a big ? when it comes to how secure our data is with any firm, where as we have a stronger (maybe a nieve trust) in the power of a collective. 3. Simply put as much as google espouses open source ideology they are not and never have been an open source company nor can we expect them to be. tj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization inparticular" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] open source Gmail replacements > Is this about concerns over having control over your own data or > software freedom, or privacy, or some subset of the three? > > On 2/16/07, Nelson Pavlosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> John Nile Li wrote: >> > I was just kidding, actually. I use my own email server, I store my >> > documents on computers I own, I use remind and wyrd to manage my >> > calendar. Google only has what I put in public web space and what I >> > email to Gmail users (that reminds me: we *really* need a nice open >> > source web mail interface to compete with Gmail). >> >> There are some open source Gmail-like webmail interfaces in the works... >> the one that FC.o has been looking at testing out is RoundCube >> <http://www.roundcube.net/>, although it is a bit early in >> development. It doesn't emulate Gmail in abandoning the notion of >> folders and instead "archiving" everything, or in many other ways, but >> it is shiny and AJAX-y and nice-looking. >> >> Peace, >> ~Nelson Pavlosky~ >> Co-founder, FreeCulture.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > -- > cheers, > ben > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
