Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:15:16 +0000 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <4mVMw.1153453.1149704@fx05.am4> <4038563154bf3bc284ed073b86037e48@remailer.privacy.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +gpJFl8OiFY18AwUGOAi0wbZg3pndcd1VxmDW9q3Vht2oAFxmj X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:413DGkRTLeve2NaI43/6HEe1kLo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14138 On 17/03/15 23:17, John F wrote: > My main beef with the whole thing is that there is so so so much > advertizing, I don't want to see it - period. I'm afraid that is part of the deal for having so much of the stuff for "free" (as in no purchase fee). Android is free, a lot of good apps are free, and lots of services, even if you and I don't trust them, are free. Not really reasonable to expect that to happen without some payback? I wonder, if there was a "zero gather, zero ad" version of Android, how much it would actually cost? And given you get updates, it would probably be a year on year cost too. > It urks me that my adult > children have to deal with all this, and they don't have a lifetime of > experience to learn how to filter out the wheat from the chaff so to speak. Not as much as it gets me that if you pay for Sky sat TV in the UK, it's still full of ads. Not that I do - but I am amazed people tolerate this. And they complain about the BBC TV license fee!! > I don't use that tablet anymore - cant be bothered when there is so little > point. - I hate being tracked, I like being in control of my system, and I > need a bigger screen to see what I am looking at anyway. - if I could root > the device and put some distro other than android on it, then I would > because it would make a great little coffee shop computer, but not as it is > now, All fair enough - you still have a choice thanks to linux and *BSD :)