Stallman's new enemy: the cloud

[Phillip Mills]

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> Richard Stallman, recently interviewed, said this about cloud computing:
>
> "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype
> campaign"

I think he makes sense, overstated and dogmatic perhaps, but....  I 
think it's stupid to put anything into "the cloud" that's deemed 
necessary to a person's or organization's core needs.

- I work for a company that uses Google as an e-mail server.  Once 
every two weeks -- for a random selection of network or host reasons -- 
  we don't have e-mail.
- I use LiveJournal as a personal resource.  From time to time their 
business model changes, threatening access to the information I've 
accumulated there.
- Recently, WalMart announced they were shutting down DRM servers, 
thereby stopping people from transferring music (legally) that they 
bought a year or so ago.

These are only inconveniences, but similar decisions/actions by 
external organizations could be disastrous in a case where they were 
allowed control of important data.

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