guardian.co.uk— The founder of GNU warns that over-reliance on the 'new' Cloud Computing trends could lead to proprietary lock-in.
Sep 29, 2008View in Crawl 4
Cloud computing isn't blocking freedom to move data any more than object code blocked freedom to edit source code. It's how the technologies are used that matters.
this guy is showing his age. its not marketing hype, cloud computing is the way of the future. it barely costs anything for the client or userbase as alot of services are provided free - and easily conusmable on Linux-powered thin clients. he's also completely ignoring the great strides that cloud computing has made on the industry and the fact much of it was built on OPEN standards and technologies. PHP, Ruby, Apache are powering the cloud, with Mozilla, Webkit leading the way in the browser-space as it emerges as the new desktop. he should also be glad that open-source friendly companies like Google are dominating the cloud-computing scene and not Microsoft. he needs to shave his beard too - i wouldn't otherwise take him seriously if it werent for his history with GNU.
Man, as much as RMS tends to annoy me, I think he's at least partially right on this one.On the other hand, the technically challenged stand to benefit greatly from the cloud.
Although I wouldn't be so hysterical about free software as Stallman is, I have to agree with him on the issue of gradually passing control over our lives over to the bug companies. I personally like to have most of the information I find really useful stored somewhere on my PC. Not only because I am not totally excited about having all of my important personal data on a server of a third party, but also because there still are moments when I simply do not have internet access. (And sometimes I go even so far that I save PDF copies of some websites in fear of dead links and other annoying issues like that.)
superm401Sep 29, 2008
Cloud computing isn't blocking freedom to move data any more than object code blocked freedom to edit source code. It's how the technologies are used that matters.
Closed AccountSep 30, 2008
this guy is showing his age. its not marketing hype, cloud computing is the way of the future. it barely costs anything for the client or userbase as alot of services are provided free - and easily conusmable on Linux-powered thin clients. he's also completely ignoring the great strides that cloud computing has made on the industry and the fact much of it was built on OPEN standards and technologies. PHP, Ruby, Apache are powering the cloud, with Mozilla, Webkit leading the way in the browser-space as it emerges as the new desktop. he should also be glad that open-source friendly companies like Google are dominating the cloud-computing scene and not Microsoft. he needs to shave his beard too - i wouldn't otherwise take him seriously if it werent for his history with GNU.
Closed AccountOct 1, 2008
Man, as much as RMS tends to annoy me, I think he's at least partially right on this one.On the other hand, the technically challenged stand to benefit greatly from the cloud.
nsushkinOct 1, 2008
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oxytronixOct 2, 2008
Although I wouldn't be so hysterical about free software as Stallman is, I have to agree with him on the issue of gradually passing control over our lives over to the bug companies. I personally like to have most of the information I find really useful stored somewhere on my PC. Not only because I am not totally excited about having all of my important personal data on a server of a third party, but also because there still are moments when I simply do not have internet access. (And sometimes I go even so far that I save PDF copies of some websites in fear of dead links and other annoying issues like that.)