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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by hollander on Saturday August 03, 2019 @05:31AM (#20599485)
Free as in "Google"?
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by zajio1am on Saturday August 03, 2019 @05:55AM (#20599554)
With mailing lists, users can use any mail client regardless of server side.
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by andrepd on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:44AM (#20600144)
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by nervousvarun on Saturday August 03, 2019 @09:07AM (#20600203)
Guessing the implication being that Google is ultimately not "free" w/ respect to your personal data and how it is used.
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by andrepd on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:57AM (#20604661)
Yes but how does Google enter into this?
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by feanaro on Sunday August 04, 2019 @02:28PM (#20608336)
It doesn't directly, only as a meme, or archetype. The same way that beer is not directly related to the concept of gratis, but you still use it in the illustrative phrase "free as in beer".
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by monadgonad on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:10AM (#20684202)
The mailing list is provided by Google Groups
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