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to: Geo.
from: Don Hills
date: 2007-02-26 21:40:08
subject: Re: Good enough?

From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>Sounds wonderful, why don't we carry this idea to hardware too, instead of
>buying phone systems we can just rent telephones?
>
>Geo. (oh wait, we tried that and it sucked didn't it?)

Phone / handset = client. Lines = ISP. Exchange = server. Looked at in that
context. Google are crazy like a fox. The only piece of the puzzle missing
is the ability to work offline.

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