-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/17/10 18:31 , mkpapp wrote: > While I agree that GMail is not by any means a "walled garden" or any > such nonsense, GMail was certainly NOT the first webmail service to > allow POP3 access. In fact, several webmail services allowed at least > POP3 access, and even IMAP access, before GMail even came into being. > > As for corporate motives, "evil" or not, none of these corporations > are operating on altruistic principles. They are in business to make > money - if not, they would/should be non-profits. That said, they do > what they think they need to do to achieve business goals. Some are > ruthless, some try to pursue reasonable means of doing business, > others believe they are being reasonable (really!) while in fact are > just ruthless. Obviously, discussions of corporate agendas is fair > game in a discussion forum such as the Java Posse forum. But the > notion that any of these guys are "morally superior" to other > corporations is a philosophical discussion at best. I agree on that. I'd not use the "moral" word when discussing such things.
PS For the record, I think I'm one of the few persons in the world who don't have a GMail account (actually, I've been forced to have one for connecting my Droid to the Market - but I've called it "[email protected]" :-) and I'll never use it for email, only as the Market account). - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuiDmcACgkQeDweFqgUGxe2TQCfbzCJJz4oOS40LDFRzC9UZaVn bXEAnRI7spLaEbdoNpp9X68s2BUGrkJG =FYtT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
