I believe Carma Gorman's post, below, was very well argued. I share these concerns.
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On Monday, September 10, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Carma Gorman wrote:
> I feel fairly strongly that since we have over 2000 subscribers to
> this list, we should stay here and not change for the sake of change.
> I think search and archiving are good reasons to stay with JISCMAIL,
> and I also think its non-commercial backing is a compelling argument.
> I adore and heavily use many Google products, but remain deeply
> suspicious that they will always continue to be free, or available at
> all, or in fashion even if so (remember Orkut?).
>
> I also feel rather uncomfortable about Google's use of "our" data to
> develop products. When Google offers a great free service, that is
> often because it wants to gather data on users. This is what it did
> with its free directory assistance service, which was its way of
> gathering enough examples of speech patterns and accents to create its
> admittedly excellent speech recognition software. (See, for example,
> this New York Times blog entry about Google's free--but now
> discontinued--411 service:
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/googles-data-advantage-over-apples-siri/).
> Though search and speech recognition software are indubitably public
> goods--and I use Google's all the time--I still don't like the feeling
> that I'm an unwitting guinea pig. I assume Google+ serves a
> data-gathering purpose of some sort, and I can only guess what that
> might be. "Don't be evil" is all very well as a rule of thumb, but
> it's not legally binding.
>
> Carma R. Gorman, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, School of Art and Design
> Southern Illinois University Carbondale
> Associate Editor/Lead Reviews Editor, Design and Culture
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