.@aral @laurakalbag Geniunely don't see a way I could now run a business using anything other than Google Docs
RT @m1ke_ellis: .@laurakalbag @aral There are no alternatives. That's the plain truth.
Open is the alternative. See Canonical, Mozilla…
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@m1ke_ellis You can. :) Was a time I couldn’t see functioning without Microsoft. Have been for years. And without Google too. +@laurakalbag -
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@aral@laurakalbag ok, well maybe put it like this: I've got better things to do than learn / d/l a whole new set of tools -
@m1ke_ellis That’s ok. As long as your clients are also all right with their data being scrutinised by NSA, you’ll be fine. +@laurakalbag -
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@aral@laurakalbag I'd imagine most of them don't care. They all have FB accounts (which I don't, btw) so generally they're PrivacyMeh -
@m1ke_ellis they won’t care until it’s too late, I’m starting to feel like it’s our job to educate in these areas too… +@aral -
@laurakalbag@aral the problem is it's a creeping problem. It's the same as when I try to tell my kids they're late...
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@aral@m1ke_ellis@laurakalbag yup. Open is and should always be an alternative.#openformats#opensource -
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@tekkie@aral@laurakalbag of course it should be. But the user experience is (generally) bloody appalling. -
@m1ke_ellis PS. Mike, you’re breaking the Twitter conversation thread by adding the dot at the start of your tweets. +@tekkie@laurakalbag -
@aral@laurakalbag@tekkie sorry :-)
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@aral@laurakalbag ..of course in *theory* there are alternatives, but in reality "oh, could you just create a * account" just isn't viableThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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