[ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

[Michael Watterson]

Kevin Lyda wrote:
> Less open?  Really?
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> In my GAFYD I have docs (all can be downloaded in openoffice, word,
> html and rtf formats), I have spreadsheets (CSV, openoffice,
> html(huh?) and Excel), I have email (IMAP and POP) and I have user
> data (CSV).  If I want to switch to my own email system I have
> everything I need to migrate over a weekend at no cost. That seems
> open to me.
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> Kevin, who works at Google but has his own opinions thanks
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Don't confuse ability to export with openness!

I can export from Autodesk apps...

Surely Google is famous for the secrecy of what changes they make to 
SQL, Linux or how they generate revenue exactly or  the current version 
of Android SDK and other things...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/14/android_developer_unrest/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/08/docs_and_spreadsheets_goes_down/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/google_app_engine_and_openness/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/06/lefty_and_google/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/google_open_source_talk/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/18/ibm_almaden_privacy/

You might get more interesting results on Google vs Opensource and 
secrecy generally searching, erm, Google  *grin*

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Michael Watterson <watty at eircom.net> wrote:
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>> Michael Watterson wrote:: Google.
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>>> Why would I want to use a mail service where droids read all my mail?
>>> Why would I want to use Apps that may be less private and less secure less
>>> open than MS's?
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Mike