2 Dec
2009
2 Dec
'09
4:56 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:12:59PM -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 10:18:56 Malte Steiner
wrote:
I stayed away for a long time due to TOS issues but I can say that one benefit
for the personal account holder is in fact the ability to limit what is seen
to friends only.
That does not apply to something like this though.
I think it may be that we seem to live in a world where proprietary and patent
pending are selling points for most rather than the turn offs that they are
for me.
Agreed. As something of a Free Software zealot, I have a natural loathing for proprietary
sites that require logins, and a deep suspicion of stuff like Facebook and Wave. I was
kind of annoyed when a Free Software Currency project I'm involved in started using
Google Docs for all the planning and document review... bypassing our own Wiki.
That said, everyone uses this stuff, it's user-friendly for the non-geeks, and
it's free (for now anyway). So, I guess, some limited assimilation is inevitable.
-ken
Sorry, I
don't do Facebook. What use are sites that require you to
become a member just to see things? ;-)
thats a good issue to bring up. Same happen at the puredata list where
someone suggest to use GoogleWave. What is the benefit of all these
WebX.0 things? I guess none, nothing which couldnt be done before