On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Akarsh Simha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
