On Wednesday 15 October 2008 23:29:55 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
> > > Doesn't Google Docs do that too?
> >
> > Yes, but it's closed source
> >
> > _____________________________
>
> Does that really matter for online applications? Even we use Gmail,
> Yahoo Mail, Flickr etc. which are all closed source? Just curious?
>
Regarding online service, people have various concerns:
1. Privacy:
a. Data should be available to people the user gets to
choose.
b. Personal Information should not be made available to thirds parties
without your approval (or at least anonymized or better aggregated).
c. Personal information should only be handed over to authorities when
there is a reasonable law and order issue.
2. Data lock in: Similar to proprietary formats. How easy is it to
retrieve your data with all the metadata you have put in over time.
3. Ease of Migration: How easy is it for you to take your data in an
useful form and move to a different provider? e.g. wordpress.com allows
you to export all your data to move to your own wordpress.org install.
The closed source part of online services is addressed by the Affero GPL
v3 licence, but not too many software have actually been licenced that
way. Even GPL v3 is ok with it (legally).
- Sandip
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