Another big area is applications. We are working on a new suite of core applications, which are designed in accordance with our high-level goals (cloud integration is a key objective here).
Anything designed using the term "cloud" is taking a risk of encouraging practices that are abusive to the user. That term is nebulous and includes many different practices. Some of them are ok. Some of them are things only fools would use. The term "cloud" suggests an attitude of insufficient concern for the mistreatment -- in effect, cloudy thinking. To be careful about which network services to use, people need to focus on the specifics of each one -- an attitude just the opposite of what "the cloud" suggests. We should encourage the attitude of caution and careful thought about each. Encouraging people to depend on network servers run by others is one of the harmful aspects of recent computer products. An ethical product encourages and leads people to keep full control over their data and their computing, not hand them over to companies which we know do surveillance and abuse people's data. Thus, the server we should mainly encourage people to use is the Freedom Box. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list