[General] OpenProj - Opensource Microsoft Projects replacement

Fri Jun 19 19:43:18 +03 2009

But can you elaborate on the power of attorney part. I'd love to know more
about it!

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:42 PM, bashar abdullah
<bashar.abdullah at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the ownership info. Getting the number by Google employee by it
> self is not wrong, but digging through my account details, and calling me
> without prior notice for the sake of tricking me to move my address to fake
> SA one before Kuwait domain opens sounded so fishy and unethical. To prove
> my point, several weeks later a guy from Ireland contacted me directly
> offering optimization support. So what the Egyptian guy was saying is all
> fake! He was sniffing into details for his own benefit and not mine. That's
> abusing, I would hate if every now and the a guy calls to move me to his
> country address.
>
> To prove he was from Google, he knew lots of details of my account, and
> contacted me from Google email address back and forth. I am shocked Google
> would hire such a guy actually.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net
> > wrote:
>
>>  Google has an official local presence in saudi arabia ? never knew that!
>> because google.com.sa actually registered for the US based company as per
>> the whois info
>>
>>
>>  although i doubt the launch of google.com.kw launch has anything related
>> to the case since the domain was registered back in 2007 via power of
>> attorney given to talal abu ghazaleh office in Kuwait (http://www.kwcheck the owner)
>>
>>
>>  but yet if he was a real google employee or even authorized
>> reseller/partner i dont see how getting your number is an abuse if something
>> mention in their Terms&Conditions that they are allowed to contact their
>> customers
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> bashar abdullah wrote, On 06/19/2009 10:12 AM:
>>
>> Actually, I was more concerned about some insider abusing his rights. For
>> instance, once a very unprofessional Egyptian guy from Google Saudi Arabia
>> called me asking me to move my Adwords account to Saudi Arabia billing
>> system, saying this way he can officially manage my account and dedicate
>> people from UK to help me run it. He got my phone number and called me
>> straight from my Google account info. Not a single Google employee ever did,
>> and he did it with this claim of helping me, saying Google doesn't have
>> presence in Kuwait. He even explicitly suggested I use a fake SA address
>> just for the sake of it.
>>
>> What happened two weeks later? Google.com.kw launched! Clearly he was
>> taking Kuwaiti phone numbers trying to make them his customer. This is one
>> slight example of individual abusing.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <
>> bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  there has been concerns by lots of ppl that google passes info to the
>>> government, so with all their access to everything it would be piece of cake
>>> to search into everything.
>>>
>>>
>>>  but ppl who has stuff to hide wont use neither free or paid hosted
>>> services IMO :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> bashar abdullah wrote, On 06/18/2009 09:29 PM:
>>>
>>>  YES... That point is true. So if you grow real large to be recognized
>>> globally, then perhaps you should move away from them. But not while on a
>>> small local scale I think
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sometimes I fear the fact that Google has all the info about you &
>>>> your business... (They also have free and paid Corporate Email
>>>> services)
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:23 PM, bashar
>>>>  abdullah<bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Exactly Majed. They have all the complementary pieces ready. Give it
>>>> another
>>>> > year trust me :)
>>>> >
>>>> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I don't think it's an easy task Bashar, so don't get your hopes high
>>>> too
>>>> >> early.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Though I think if Google is to do that, they'd integrate it with
>>>> >> Calendar, Documents and Maps.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:07 PM, bashar
>>>> >> abdullah<bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >> > Frankly, right now I am depending on online project management
>>>> tools
>>>> >> > like
>>>> >> > Basecamp and Zoho. They're not so concrete yet, but what I'm really
>>>> >> > waiting
>>>> >> > for is Google to merge what they have and add to it the project
>>>> >> > management.
>>>> >> > This would be real killer!
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
>>>> >> > <bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
>>>> >> > wrote:
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Salaam,
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Weekend Gift :)
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> For those who didn't like Dia ;) here is another MS-Projects
>>>> >> >> replacementhttp://openproj.org/
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> since i wasn't Ms-project user i can't review both.
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> any reviews are more than welcome :)
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Best Regards,
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> --
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Bashar
>>>> >> >>
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