01 Oct 2008
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

He's right, you know. The network is no place to store even trivial stuff, like music , much less data that's vital to your business. In this day of "always on" and Internet ubiquity it's sometimes tough to remember that the 'Net is inherently unreliable and that hosts come and go with all the dependability of June's frost.

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner

(link) [The Guardian]

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