Stallman's new enemy: the cloud

[Scott C. Ripley]

it's important to manage the risk associated with any technology...

just as hard-drives do fail and data recovery must be possible, any system 
leveraging so-called "cloud" (virtualized/distributed/etc.) computing must 
address scenarios where the cloud becomes unavailable...


On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Neil Watson wrote:

> Stallman does have a point behind the dogma.  There is some risk in
> trusting a corporation, which some argue behave like sociopaths, with
> your data.  Will they keep it private?  Will they discontinue the
> service and leave you with data in a legacy format?  Will they disappear
> and leave you with nothing? 
>
>
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