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Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Re: Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Post by lrvick »

spyke112 wrote: post #6

I've been thinking of ditching Gmail for myself and my business, but what true alternatives are there? I already have O365, but am not particular keen on using Exchange. I'm basically only using Gmail and Calendar. Any e-mail providers based out of the EU, worth mentioning?

Migadu or the company that put out this blog post, tutanota, are great if you lack the time to self host.

Re: Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Post by dx034 »

spyke112 wrote: post #6

I've been thinking of ditching Gmail for myself and my business, but what true alternatives are there? I already have O365, but am not particular keen on using Exchange. I'm basically only using Gmail and Calendar. Any e-mail providers based out of the EU, worth mentioning?

Fastmail is good but more if you don't use it in bigger team (my opinion). Why don't you want to use exchange? Shouldn't be too bad as long as it's configured by MSFT?

Re: Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Post by bigDinosaur »

Having until August 3 to entirely complete the transition seems incredibly rough? How can that possibly be a reasonable situation?

I'm absolutely all for privacy, but I also wonder if the EU alternatives (e.g. Tutanota as per article) will be able to withstand e.g. state sponsored attacks as well as Google.

Re: Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Post by rgrieselhuber »

dx034 wrote: post #12
wiz21c wrote: post #2

Now let's ban MSFT Office365 too. It's of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.

I'd have to disagree here. Teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help them for the majority of office jobs out there.

Plenty of open source options that will teach them 90% of what most people will need to know. Taxpayer money should not be going to these corporations.

Re: Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Post by chronogram »

dx034 wrote: post #12
wiz21c wrote: post #2

Now let's ban MSFT Office365 too. It's of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.

I'd have to disagree here. Teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help them for the majority of office jobs out there.

It's the other way around, teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help Microsoft for the majority of office jobs out there, that's why everything MS is free for kids.

Re: Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Post by O__________O »

noisy_boy wrote: post #5
oellegaard wrote: post #3

About time - many schools in Denmark is now offering free Chromebooks to students. Wonder what they'll do with them now.

Maybe that presents possibility for Linux on Chromebook migration project.

Oddly, Linux is hard, if not impossible, to run on many Chromebooks as root. A lot of Chromebooks only support “linux beta” (aka Crostini) as a subsystem of ChromeOS and the hardware doesn’t support running Linux as root from boot; frequently the low end models.

Re: Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns

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Post by lrvick »

wiz21c wrote: post #2

Now let's ban MSFT Office365 too. It's of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.

Schools have no place supporting or teaching proprietary software in the first place. They should teach concepts using publicly available software and sponsor students who wish to patch bugs that impact school operations.
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