On 03/31/10 16:28, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
I am worried that if people start using say Google Docs for
collaborating on Gentoo content, everyone else is forced to use Google
Docs to participate.
While I do appreciate projects like TechTalks and Summer of Code I
personally do not trust Google with my data. Also, most of these
services are not Free Software -- I don't trust non-free software.
If they are let's run our instance, not theirs.
if they aren't lets go for something else.
While I'm not a developer, so it won't affect me, I do agree with
Sebastian here. Note that google can change their features at any time,
so if you use their services for anything serious, keep in mind that
they are controlling how you do so. You may laugh at this, but it has
had an effect before.
Take google analytics for instance, when they pushed the big redesign a
couple of years ago. Several features were removed (marketing summary
for one), and selecting date ranges can now only be done in flash. Gnash
doesn't work well enough yet, so analytics is essentially crippled for
free software users.
Btw if we really need a shared web-calendar let's make a project for
that and get it done. Ironically, it may even fit for GSOC.
Google may be fine now, and fit perfectly. But in the long term, I'd
agree that developing our own calendar would be a good idea. If there
isn't a decent free solution out there already, then developing one from
scratch would likely help out other projects too.
Just my two cents.
