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On 03/31/10 16:28, Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> I am worried that if people start using say Google Docs for |
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> collaborating on Gentoo content, everyone else is forced to use Google |
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> Docs to participate. |
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> While I do appreciate projects like TechTalks and Summer of Code I |
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> personally do not trust Google with my data. Also, most of these |
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> services are not Free Software -- I don't trust non-free software. |
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> If they are let's run our instance, not theirs. |
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> if they aren't lets go for something else. |
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While I'm not a developer, so it won't affect me, I do agree with |
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Sebastian here. Note that google can change their features at any time, |
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so if you use their services for anything serious, keep in mind that |
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they are controlling how you do so. You may laugh at this, but it has |
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had an effect before. |
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Take google analytics for instance, when they pushed the big redesign a |
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couple of years ago. Several features were removed (marketing summary |
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for one), and selecting date ranges can now only be done in flash. Gnash |
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doesn't work well enough yet, so analytics is essentially crippled for |
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free software users. |
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> Btw if we really need a shared web-calendar let's make a project for |
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> that and get it done. Ironically, it may even fit for GSOC. |
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Google may be fine now, and fit perfectly. But in the long term, I'd |
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agree that developing our own calendar would be a good idea. If there |
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isn't a decent free solution out there already, then developing one from |
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scratch would likely help out other projects too. |
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Just my two cents. |
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