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My response to Google deleting peoples email accounts.

Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work: This makes me laugh my ass off. This is a bit of a pet peeve I have with people and modern technology. They believe they have a right to use a service even though they're not paying for the usage of the service. Then they turn around shocked and angry when the free service is removed. `Why! why did they do this to me, this is the biggest injustice! How un-professional of them!`. Kind of like the dicussion I have with my collegues that `shouldn't you know.... support the open source frameworks we use to make money with?`... `Why would we do that?` ... Kind of leaves me speachless.

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The guy you're laughing at is about 65 years old. I know nothing about Dennis Cooper, but people of that age are sometimes just not tech savvy. And based on what I've seen of his response to the situation, he never responded in the way you mischaracterized him above. Why is your first response to "laugh your ass off" when something unfortunate happens to someone else, even if that misfortune was brought about by their own ignorance?

Take a look here, his response is actually very thoughtful:

https://www.pixartprinting.co.uk/blog/dennis-cooper-erased-b...

Really sick sense of humor you've got there bud.

Sure, people should pay & support the tools they use, but there are a lot of clueless, inept people out there who have been trained by Google, Facebook, etc that everything is free.

Whatsapp with the $1 a year charge was a step in the right direction, but Facebook idiotically killed that (decent) business model. That could have made over $80 mil a month in revenue, while being a nominal amount for the average user to pay.

Someone losing a decade of work makes you laugh your ass off?

Yes, when a simple usb hard disk drive could of saved all his work.

And the open source frameworks.... well it's up to you but I think it should be tackled from the other end. Guys keep your stuff proprietary and sell it. Or at least make the open source version less features. There I said it.

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