<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I have so many friends in the Free Software community, but I can count<br>
the people in my xmmp roaster on my fingers. It is disappointing when<br>
they aren't even ready to try this in addition to their existing<br>
networks. Oh well, it is their choice.<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">ആ പോസ്റ്റിൽ പുള്ളി ഗൂഗിളിനെ പറ്റി പറയുന്ന ഒരു കാര്യമുണ്ട് - "It's pretty difficult to ditch Google entirely. It may be in the
surveillance business, but it's also mastered the convenience state." . "Convenience" അതാണ് മിക്കവരും, (even those who are technologically literate and capable) ഗൂഗിളിനെ ഉപേക്ഷിക്കാൻ മടിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പ്രധാന കാരണം എന്ന് എനിക്ക് തോന്നിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. They provide a complete package - Mail, Chat, Calendar, Cloud storage etc. It is no surprise people tend to use that package instead of privacy-aware solutions which are independent and hence, unfortunately, need a little more work. To get the three solutions - Mail, Chat, Storage - I should use three different solutions - a mail service, xmpp, owncloud. Why the trouble, when I can simply use GMail??<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Conveniece often supercedes privacy concerns. At least for the majority of the people.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,<br>Balasankar C<br></div><a href="http://balasankarc.in" target="_blank">http://balasankarc.in</a><br>
<br>"Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny." - Trent Lott<br></div>
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