If this service weren't free and weren't advertised as free forever (see the original ToS [1]), more people would run their own email server and e-mail would be

If this service weren't free and weren't advertised as free forever (see the original ToS [1]), more people would run their own email server and e-mail would be less centralized. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20090211101551/http://google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html http://web.archive.org/web/20090211101551/http://google.com/...