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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by bobongo on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:22AM (#21606989)
They would mean selling all documents ever printed using their product.
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by dewey on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:27AM (#21607047)
How did you make the connection from "Cloud Print codebase" to selling the database of all users with it?
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by bobongo on Saturday November 23, 2019 @12:21PM (#21615187)
Because why would anyone buy what basically is a CUPS implementation if not for the user data?
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by dewey on Saturday November 23, 2019 @12:25PM (#21615206)
Sometimes companies that are doing "basically a X implementation" are still worth a lot.
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by bobongo on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:01PM (#21640133)
That is very true. I guess I got too jaded about consumer data sharing/exchange between companies. Thanks for your feedback!
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