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Richard Freeman posted on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:04:54 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> On 03/10/2010 04:42 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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>> So a gmail account is now considered mandatory for Gentoo devs, at |
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>> least if they want calendar access? |
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>> What about those who might think that Google knows enough about them |
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>> with search and the web crawling and database correlation Google does, |
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>> and whatever ad serving might leak thru, and object to having a gmail |
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>> account on principle? |
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> Honestly, Google calendar works well enough that I'm not sure that I |
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> like the idea of re-inventing the wheel. Maybe if somebody designed |
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> some kind of open calendar access protocol that was comparable. |
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I guess that's two separate objections. One is simply to the /assumption/ |
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that /everyone/ (well, all Gentoo devs interested in calendar activities, |
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at least) has or at least doesn't object to getting a gmail account. I |
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suppose that's corrected to some degree by the posting itself, but it's an |
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assumption that really shouldn't be taken lightly, IMO. |
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The other is to google /requiring/ a gmail account in the first place, but |
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of course, gentoo really doesn't have much to do with that, except to |
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possibly refuse to use the tools so made available (gratis), which could |
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be argued should be done, but is it worth it in practice? I don't know. |
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The first one is what really hit me here tho. Why the assumption? If |
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it'd have been made explicit that this was something some might have an |
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issue with and they'd simply need to choose, it wouldn't have been so bad |
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as the issue would have been recognized. So it was the simple assumption |
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I found most offensive, and as I said, my post corrected that to some |
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degree, so... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |