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From: Paul Rudin <paul-sqPYmOVXOov10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:14:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y4p9345v.fsf@rudin.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2015-01-11T11-44-39@devnull.Karl-Voit.at

Karl Voit <devnull-lKKztaIpiO84+ND2ZU0ZlA@public.gmane.org> writes:

> * Paul Rudin <paul-sqPYmOVXOov10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Karl Voit <devnull-lKKztaIpiO84+ND2ZU0ZlA@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>>> * Paul Rudin <paul-sqPYmOVXOov10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so
>>>> it's not like you'll lose your emails. 
>>>
>>> There are cases where people lost access to Gmail instantly because
>>> of false accusations or idendity theft. You have to prepare *now*
>>> for not losing yous emails if you don't synchronize often.
>>>
>> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-11 12:14 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 [this message]
2015-01-11 14:55                             ` Karl Voit
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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