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by BlueTemplar 1988 days ago
> “No one will argue with the direction,” said Liam Broza, a founder of LifeScope, an open-source data project. “He’s on the right side of history. But is what he’s doing really going to work?”

While I totally support Tim's project, history will decide what is "on the right side of history". Unless he's from the future?
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adkadskhj 1988 days ago
Well.. obviously it's speculation. Specifically a form of speculation describing Liam's belief in this technology.

With that said, depending on what specifically Liam had in mind with that quote, i don't think it's far off. Tim's technological choice might be right or wrong, but it's difficult to argue that people should be able to own more of their data than they do now. Is there some pro-Google argument that would argue they're the ideal hosts for your data?

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BlueTemplar 1988 days ago
I guess as long as it isn't a form of "we are the good guys = we cannot lose (at least in the long term)"…

I guess that I found the whiplash with the next phrase somewhat funny.

As far as for Google, they're certainly very competent at their job of gathering (and using) the world's information. Which makes them both tempting to use, and also extremely dangerous. Also, remember their old motto ? I wonder how many of today's googlers still believe that they're the "good guys" ?

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