Stallman's new enemy: the cloud

[Neil Watson]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:49:43PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Quite right.  If a business risk is that the propriatory application in  
> the cloud may disappear and render the user data useless, the way to  
> address that risk is to avoid using the application in the first place :)

 From reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars triology I always invisioned
the cloud as public infrastructure and also that one could host their
own node.  Thus if the cloud goes off line you still have your copy that
could be synced up later. 

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Neil Watson
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