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____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:57 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>> Stallman warns against cloud computing
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>>| In an interview reported by The Guardian, he said, "It's stupidity. It's
>>| worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign."
>>|
>>| Stallman warns that cloud computing is simply a trap to entice users' into
>>| entrusting their data and computing applications to proprietary systems
>>| that are beyond their own control and which service providers could make
>>| more and more expensive for users over time. He doesn't trust the vendors.
>>|
>>| "Somebody is saying this is inevitable -- and whenever you hear somebody
>>| saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make
>>| it true," Stallman said.
>> `----
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/30/stallman-warns-against-cloud
>>
>> It's probably safe as long as the users run it on their own server and
>> control the code, the style of the pages (layout), the terms/conditions of
>> use, etc.
>>
>
> I tend to agree that there is a huge risk here, however, we must also
> recognise that the 1970s desktop model of computing is completely dead,
> that people are no longer fixed by wiring and cumbersome machines to a
> single location, rather, they are connected through both the internet
> and the pstn to the rest of the world.
>
> The question which needs to be properly addressed is how consumer data,
> which exists in all manner of locations, can be properly merged and
> managed in order to meet the mobility requirements of the customer, end
> user, or however they be called.
>
> Interesting questions include... can you retain servers at your own
> property which can be remotely accessed? Can you merge such accesses
> with eg., an Asus EEE or Nokia N810? What about calendaring, diaries,
> address books and so on?
>
> There is a massive opportunity for the open-source community to enter
> this space with open systems which enable the customer to meet their
> mobility requirements without becoming beholden to some proprietary
> storage mechanism. We already have a wide range of ultra-mobile devices
> which are sufficiently open to suit most foss afficionados, such as the
> Openmoko devices for phones, the Limo phones, Android, as well as the
> miniature PCs mentioned above.
>
> What I've yet to see addressed is the equivalent of "scheduleworld" for
> everything, rather than just calendaring and address-books.
I personally use my desktop as a 'server' to which I can SSH. I suppose it'll
become possible for people to just connect to 'home' instead of a 'cloud'
(someone else's untrusted home). it gives that "someone else" a lot of
control, which can be channeled toward profit later on. Just watch what they
do in Facebook, which retains a lot of personal data.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Linux: stop maintenance; get more actual work done
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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