On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I am disagreeing is with the FOSS world not attempting to even > touch the technology because the closed source business model is the > only one we see. The technology is really attractive, and there is no > doubt that if the right FOSS business model is found, it would benefit > a lot of people without compromising the software freedom that we have > today.
Exactly. Maybe opening up the data storage and exchange formats is part of the key. For example, gmail allows pop/smtp access, which means that your data is not be locked inside the gmail "jail", even if the software is not free. Does that make it more acceptable than, say, hotmail? -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
