On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Rick Johnson > <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It was a nice run Google. We had good times and bad times. A few smiles and >> cries. >> >> LMBTFY > > So, what... you reckon Microsoft is going to be the paragon of > righteousness against the squalor of Google's information-grubbing > tactics? Fascinating.
It's happened before. The example that made me really realize this was when my university, the University of Toronto, was considering both Microsoft and Google as mail providers for students last year. They chose Microsoft, to a mass of student responses to the effect of "but Microsoft is Evil!". It turns out that they ended up choosing Microsoft because they gave stronger privacy guarantees. People hold grudges against MS too strongly, and they believe too much in Google's righteousness. They are both big companies that don't necessarily care about you. -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
