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iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service
An anonymous reader writes "A few days ago, Inner Fence released a paid iPhone app called Infinite SMS, which let iPhone users employ Google's free SMS gateway to send SMS messages without paying their service providers. The resulting surge in traffic on Google's SMS gateway forced Google to block all third-party applications from using the free SMS feature — including Google's own GTalk client."
Probably because every /. discussion of how to make a living from creating open source software involves the magic fairy of selling services associated with the software. What people forget to mention is that the magic services fairy is at least as likely to die via gang rape while on its way to your house as it is to successfully deliver the kind of money you'd have gotten from making a closed source piece of software.
(This is not to say there aren't occasions to work on OSS, but most business models revolving around making OSS are dubious.)
This post, in particular? Of course not. Your use of the internet to view television shows? Yes, you probably should, if you wish to think of yourself as completely honest. You choose to watch television, without paying for it, which impacts on bandwidth usage. A mutual agreement might be arrived at, whereby you pay 5 or 10 percent extra for internet, without being charged for the unused television service. And, such a package SHOULD BE AVAILABLE for everyone. Discussing your digital activity on the interwebz with the post office is so absurd that no rational person would consider it as more than a joke. But, feel free to act on the idea, if you wish.
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They do not charge for incoming. Didn't when they were Cingular or the old At&t. That is simply not true.