Third-party proprietary services

From Herlo

Every time I decline to use some third-party, usually proprietary service that I can reasonably do with Linux and open source on my own systems, instead, I am protecting and promoting the perception by onlookers that Linux and open source are the right solution -- not to mention improving my own competence. Internet services are supposed to be the Linux community's core competency: What sort of message does it send to go moving our affairs onto other people's third-party services as a convenience, in an area where we're supposed to be the leaders?

-- Rick Moen - http://linuxgazette.net/144/okopnik.html