I wasn't suggesting you don't get it. I was just highlighting a contradiction, although one that I think illustrates a point; that there is generally a tradeoff between freedom and convenience. Different people have different levels of expertise, amounts of time and tolerance of inconvenience that influences their software choices.
One other point, in the article you say:
The PRISM debacle of the last week confirmed my fears and reasoning, and so I made the decision to accelerate the schedule.
If it is government spying you are worried about then using non-free web apps is surely a much greater risk than non-free native software. At least you can stick a proxy in front of your Windows box and block/monitor where it is connecting to and what data it sends. With web apps your data could have been siphoned off to some NSA data centre without you ever knowing about it.
Also I find it mildly depressing that being able to retrieve your own data is seen as the mark of a really 'free and open' webapp. Even with the most proprietary of native software I typically still control my data. Webapps took us a step backwards in that regard and partial reversal on that front is not a sign of great progress, it's a sign that we are struggling to even maintain the status quo.
