Well... fair enough. If you use google apps already, nothing changes (if I'm reading this correctly?) If you're thinking about using google apps, you've got t

Well... fair enough. If you use google apps already, nothing changes (if I'm reading this correctly?) If you're thinking about using google apps, you've got to pay for it now. Yes, this benefits no one but google. Then again, google has been providing benefit to millions of people with google apps. Running your own e-mail server is not trivial. There's a reason there are no good gmail alternatives--it's harder than it looks. If I were them, I would have charged for it from the beginning--it's a really useful service. And they could have been real dicks by forcing all current free users to start coughing up dough.