On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 23:08 +0200, Moon Jones wrote:
Than they should break Avaaz.
If one company depends so much on another, than you can call the first one a parasyte. If it's existence depends on Google, than they should ask nicely and maybe forward a nice sum of money. Or they have quite some nerve to try to impose rules from the position of parasyte.
Hopefuly for you their niche might be filled afterwards by a company that can stand on its own.
Avaaz depends on Google delivering all mail sent to the user to the user. Possibly modulo unsolicited or "spam" mail. In a similar sense, Google could break this list, by censoring it on Gmail. Should it do that? Any infrastructure provider can break any company or organization that uses its infrastructure. But we expect infrastructure to be fair. FYI, Avaaz is a liberal activist group. They send people who sign up with them various petitions to sign or campaigns to donate to. If their emails are shunted into a "bulk mailings" folder, then they'll be effectively crippled. -- Sent from Ubuntu