Dnia poniedziałek, 23 lipca 2012 o 15:56:59 Dave Crossland napisał(a): > On 23 July 2012 13:47, Fabian Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's up to you to decide if/why you continue to depend on their > > SMTP (a rather small dependency IMO) or research/reach further > > freedom > > This is what I don't understand: What further freedom is possible? > > Technically, a SMTP server is just the same as any other SMTP > server. You might not like to use a SMTP server located in some > jurisdiction, but that isn't a software freedom issue.
Centralisation of communication is a software and data freedom issue. What good are non-centralised protocols and tools like e-mail if most of the communication goes through servers of a single entity? In such situation both freedom and decentralisation of this communication is illusory - and the only thing you have to do to grasp it is imagine if Google went belly up this minute. Which is not the worst scenario, too. -- Pozdrawiam Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania
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