Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/17/2011 1:49 AM, Werner Flamme wrote:
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> Am 16.08.2011 23:21, schrieb Frans de Boer:
> > On 08/16/2011 11:00 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > On Thursday, August 11, 2011 09:15:33 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > >
> > > If you sync your phone with Google, there are lots of ways to sync from
> > > openSUSE with Google. E.g. you can use the akonadi-google to sync
> > > contacts
> > > (from KDE Playground repository) with KDE. I don't know what works with
> > > evolution.
> > >
> > > For mail syncing, just use an IMAP server and access it from every
> > > system.
> > > IMAP sync for you.
> > >
> > > There's nothing special openSUSE here, it's more a Linux general
> > > question,
> > >
> > > Andreas
> >
> > Bah, using Google? parties disrespecting European privacy are to me
> > off-limit. So, there must be another way to handle agenda syncs etc.
> > Anything but Google.
> >
> > Frans.
>
> We're talking about an operating systems that is from Google, right? And
> you don't want to share the content of your addressbook with Google
> then? Funny.
>
> I do not use an Android phone because I don't like Google's way of
> collecting data, but I'd never refuse to sync my data with them if I had
> an Android phone - they may alread have it ;-) "Accidentally forgot to
> remove this portion of code" or so is something I always suspect.
>
> And, since the OS is from Google: why "must" there be another way to sync?

That is an utterly invalid argument.
I use Microsoft's OS all day every day on my laptop but I don't use any 
of their on-line stuff. No Windows Live or the new 
subscription/web-based Office, etc... The one factor has nothing 
whatsoever to do with the other.

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