Stallman's new enemy: the cloud

[Evan Leibovitch]

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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?

Your questions are all reasonable, but I can't accept the premise that
they can never be answered in an acceptable fashion.

There is a difference between complaining the that current
implementations are imperfect, and asserting that the model itself is
just hype and can _never_ be useful.

- - Evan
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