On 06/21/2012 04:53 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > >> The thought of setting up personal (or even Debian-wide) Google+ servers >> never occurred to me. > > I think you might have missed the point. Google+ is a proprietary SaaS > used for selling your eyeballs to advertisers. It is unlikely that > Google will ever let it be installed on other servers, let alone > release the source code under a free license. Debian should avoid > using such SaaS offerings and promote the free alternatives that exist > and the movements that support them, some links: > > http://autonomo.us/ > http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox > http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
Seriously, thats all fine stuff, but if having a hangout with 10+ people on google+ helps Debian to get the bugs squashed, I can't see a reason why we should not use it. It is much more pain free to use than any other solution we have in Debian. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe30f46.7030...@bzed.de
