Help with KDE PIM and Google Privacy Policies needed

[Adam Szopa]

Dnia piątek, 6 marca 2020 16:11:48 CET Martin Steigerwald pisze:
> Nicolás Alvarez - 06.03.20, 16:07:09 CET:
> > > On 6 Mar 2020, at 11:26, Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Martin Flöser - 06.03.20, 13:14:36 CET:
> > >> Am 2020-03-06 08:20, schrieb Nicolás Alvarez:
> > >>> Apple can give its million appstore apps access to Google calendar
> > >>> data, and Mozilla can let addons access email data, but we can't?
> > >>> What do they do differently?
> > >> 
> > >> The only thing they do differently is that they have a permission
> > >> system in place. Doesn't apply for Thunderbird of course which
> > >> means
> > >> we should look at their privacy policy. Though we should never ask
> > >> Google "Why is Thunderbird allowed?" as we don't want that
> > >> Thunderbird gets access revoked.
> > > 
> > > I ask a different question:
> > > 
> > > Why – at all – rely on a provider who dictates on who gets access to
> > > it and who does not? Why – at all – rely on a provider who by doing
> > > so creates a walled garden?
> > 
> > That's something you should go ask the thousands of users complaining
> > that they can't connect to GMail using KMail. They're the ones
> > relying on the provider. Go to the bug report and tell them the
> > solution to their KMail errors is to stop using Google services. That
> > should go well :)
> 
> See?

I think the first step of moving users from a service such as gmail into more 
decentrlized services, is to provide them a good tool that can support both.

It's already a challange to convince someone to move from their current 
software to a different one, combine it with the need to change their service 
provider as well and it becomed that much harder.