"I believe this logical fallacy is sometimes called reductio ad absurdum. I
insist there is a difference between my posting on the Trisquel forum and
using facebook, a mass surveillance, data mining, profiling system. This is
not black and white."
They are both SaaSS.
"Also, your argument that 'If it is not my computer that is being used, then
there is no problem' is flawed in my opinion. If I give you access to a
remote terminal running Windows, then there's no problem?"
Just as RMS uses others' computers to run proprietary programs sometimes, as
he has claimed more than once.
"No, I am going to say that XMPP is an open standard communications protocol
using an open systems approach. Facebook can call their chat XMPP, but that
doesn't make it so. It is a closed communications protocol that interfaces
with XMPP chat clients through an API. It is not XMPP. Just like their code
is not free software either."
Just as Facebook can see all information that goes through their servers,
XMPP servers can do likewise. Your judgment of trust isn't going to define
the definition of SaaSS.
"Well, what's not to understand? That's the definition of a gated community."
Does that mean it's "gated" to not be able to order Papa John's Pizza through
Trisquel comments? Everything is made with a purpose.
"I'm talking about market dominance, not the ancient Greek definition. You
may want to think about the antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft for an
example of what I mean. Most people are reliant on facebook and thus trapped
into it. In my case, at least 95% of the people I know are on facebook. I
choose not to be a part of the gated community, so I am exiled."
mo·nop·o·ly
n. pl. mo·nop·o·lies
1. Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a
commodity or service
Keywords: Exclusive, Control
