There's a middle road, though: pay for a service that uses open protocols. That way a) you're not the product, b) you can interop with other open services, and

There's a middle road, though: pay for a service that uses open protocols. That way a) you're not the product, b) you can interop with other open services, and c) you can migrate in the case of failures. That's why I'm with Fastmail :)