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GMail Drive Shell Extension
krmpradeep writes "GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to."
Tell that to the tens of thousands of people who already depend on gMail as their primary email. What are they called again? Oh yes, the "public." And would you say they regard a huge free email account as something "bad" or something "good"?
Bullshit. "Good" doesn't refer to the opposite of "bad", it refers to something that is produced. And a "public good" is a good that people aren't motivated to produce by market forces. Free Email is a "loss leader", a revenue generator, or simply a marketing gimmick, whether Microsoft, Yahoo, or Google does it.
There are so many companies who do bad things right and left, and that deserve to get kicked in the teeth. Google continually offers innovative projects that vastly improve the public good
They are a for-profit company that makes decent products, nothing more and nothing less.
why spend energy kicking them in the teeth, too?
More bullshit. I'm not "kicking them in the teeth". Google made a business decision with GMail and they are smart enough to calculate the consequences. They don't need your whining in order to succeed (and if they did, they'd be in trouble).