[dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail

On 10/3/05, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Josh McFarlane wrote:
> Follow the money. Some of that cash goes back to Google, doesn't it?

Not from the sale of the product, but only from advertising on Google.

> The question concerned email, not surfing. I'd use such a company for
> email only in an emergency & preferably not at all.

If your idealogy on this is that you're no safer with Hotmail than
Gmail, then I can see what you're thinking. If you're trying to claim
Gmail is worse then other web-based email providers, well, what's some
proof?

> That misses the pont entirely. Trust of due process in western
> democracies is arguably rational. But Google operates worldwide. Do you
> trust due process in China, Nigeria, Iran?

Same could be claimed of Rogers. The web is worldwide. If the company
is based out of the US but Nigeria has an ongoing investigation, and
requests information, the company will have to deal with it. Whether
that means handing over the information or letting the US government
decide how to handle the issue, something would still have to be done,
regardless of whether it's Google or Rogers. Also, nothing is saying
that Google is going to hand over all of this information everytime
foreign governments ask for it. Once again however, they are also not
the only free-email provider that is multinational. Microsoft and
Yahoo also both deal with overseas companies.

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Josh McFarlane

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