Looking for a real Gmail alternative

Re:Looking for a real Gmail alternative by stephenr on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @01:43AM (#5447993)

Google is an advertising business - just because they use Email internally doesn't mean offering it to third parties is a core part of their business.

Also - I doubt the FTC has any power to force a company to provide email services - it's not like they're a phone company providing the only service available to a specific area.

Besides - they don't have to "shut down" Gmail for it to become undesirable to use it. They've announced heavy restrictions on access to calendars - how long until IMAP access is discontinued and they force people to use webmail or one of their apps?

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Re:Looking for a real Gmail alternative by tssva on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @05:15AM (#5448467)

They haven't announced heavy restrictions on access to calendars. Anyone can still write a client to access Google Calendars. They just need to use Google's calendar api instead of caldav. The method of access has changed but not the level of access.

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Re:Looking for a real Gmail alternative by stephenr on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @08:12AM (#5448890)

Forcing the use of a proprietary service specific api when they have a working implementation of a standards based protocol to do the same thing, is a heavy restriction.

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