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From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:55:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2015-01-11T15-53-08@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86y4p9345v.fsf@rudin.co.uk

* Paul Rudin <paul@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> * Paul Rudin <paul@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure, but that kind of thing could happen with pretty much any third
>>> party service.
>>
>> Yes. That's the point, when you do not consider open source services
>> as third party services.
>
> Aren't you mixing up two different things here? Suppose google were to
> open source all the code behind gmail. That wouldn't really change the
> situation for users if the service suddenly disappeared.

Oh, I disagree. I think that this would change a *lot*. Consider the
possibility that I can select who is hosting the service and my
data. As a side-effect: my data is not locked in at all. I can
backup/migrate whenever/wherever I want.

Believe it or not: the mail system is meant to be like that with
good reason :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-11 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-29  2:01 Org-mode to feed a database Vikas Rawal
2014-12-29 11:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-31  0:14   ` Vikas Rawal
2014-12-29 18:06 ` Nick Dokos
2014-12-31  0:13   ` Vikas Rawal
2014-12-31 10:37     ` Conducting end user surveys and analyze data (was: Org-mode to feed a database) Karl Voit
2014-12-31 13:05       ` Ista Zahn
2014-12-31 13:40         ` Karl Voit
2014-12-31 13:49           ` Ista Zahn
2014-12-31 15:13             ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-01 16:22               ` Karl Voit
2015-01-02 10:53                 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-02 14:04                   ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data) Karl Voit
2015-01-03 21:19                     ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization Rasmus
2015-01-11 10:52                       ` OT: privacy-aware web search via startpage.com (was: OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization) Karl Voit
2015-01-20  6:49                     ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data) Tom Prince
2015-01-20  9:19                       ` OT: Cloud-dependencies, privacy, decentralization Karl Voit
2015-01-02 14:15                   ` Conducting end user surveys and analyze data Paul Rudin
2015-01-02 16:51                     ` OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data) Karl Voit
2015-01-03  8:02                       ` OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies Paul Rudin
2015-01-11 10:46                         ` Karl Voit
2015-01-11 12:14                           ` Paul Rudin
2015-01-11 14:55                             ` Karl Voit [this message]
2015-01-12  7:55                           ` Daniele Pizzolli
2014-12-30 21:15 ` Org-mode to feed a database Karl Voit
2015-01-04 22:05 ` John Kitchin
2015-01-05  3:39   ` Vikas Rawal

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