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In theory, but never in practice. The big kicker that makes it impractical is that most businesses and government organizations use GMail. There's so much mone
by Night_Thastus 3y ago
In theory, but never in practice.
The big kicker that makes it impractical is that most businesses and government organizations use GMail. There's so much money and power out there that would pressure Google into fixing it immediately. If they seriously tried it would be endless, endless lawsuits about all the lost productivity, valuable company information, etc.
If Google made their intentions clear, I bet it wouldn't stay down for more than 3 days before they relented due to all that pressure.
- SahAssar 3y agoLets just say you have ~$2 Trillion burning a hole in your pocket and buy google, take it private. At day one you could shut down the normal gmail service for basically everyone who don't pay for it, right? For most business accounts I'm guessing you need to wait for the next billing cycle, but that would be next month in most cases. For special accounts it might be longer but those would be a very small number. Could anyone win a lawsuit against a serviceprovider for (completely within the terms of the contract) not wanting to provide a service anymore?
- science4sail 3y ago> Could anyone win a lawsuit against a serviceprovider for (completely within the terms of the contract) not wanting to provide a service anymore? The problem is that with a 1B+ people dependent on the product, shutting it off wouldn't just get you lawsuits, but also visits from scary men in suits and extralegal actions. You may very well be coerced into switching the service back on - at the end of the day, contracts are just pieces of paper.