Important notice for free software supporters using Gmail(fsf.org)
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Important notice for free software supporters using Gmail
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/jstrap/gmail/
3 comments
This campaign is ridiculous. People don't want to run their own mail server, because Google can do it better. They understand and are willing to sacrifice ownership of their data for the convenience of letting Google manage it. Given this, the difference between using their javascript frontend and an open source mail client is so minimal in comparison I don't even see the point. Gmail's frontend is also much better than Thunderbird or any OSS client's I've ever used.
Worrying about Google's Javascript being proprietary while not worrying about, say, Google's spam-filter being proprietary seems a bit silly.
The important thing from a software-freedom point of view isn't whose computer the code runs on, it's whose data the code is processing.
The important thing from a software-freedom point of view isn't whose computer the code runs on, it's whose data the code is processing.
Really..?