[Ilugc] Google vs Yahoo, again!
- From: ashokgautham@xxxxxxxxx (Ashok Gautham J.)
- Date: Thu Jun 12 07:59:35 2008
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
There's no rumour that GMail is going to turn into a paid service. I
only foresee such a possibility, but with miniscule probability. The
suspiscion lies in the fact that they call it "GMail Beta". Beta
versions are usually free, so that users can test them. I have no idea
when the real GMail will come out, whether it will come out at all,
and whether it will be free or paid when it comes out, and that is
something we can't predict.
In fact Debian, Fedora and any software goes through alpha, beta and RC
stages, and none went payware. Looking at Google's history, they are more
likely to lose people than gain money if they go paid.
The idea is that we should discourage monopolies, because we know the
trouble we face with people handing out MS Word documents, and that is
a result of such a monopoly.
I would not say I discourage monopoly. I discourage companies that enforce
monopoly. If every monopoly must be shot in the head, then so must Linux. We
should start using Hurd or some other "not used by every other FLOSS user"
OS
That was where there was a mention that
we must discourage the GMail monopoly, and that's where encouraging
Yahoo! etc came up.
But is that not like encouraging one monopoly from another?
Regards
Akarsh
(Hoping to get a different mail service soon)
Unless you create one, I doubt if you will settle for any!
Ash
--
Be yourself everyday, every way
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