On Wednesday 01 October 2008 23:54:31 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Today every company is talking about Cloud computing, but RMS has > rejected as a trap and it truly is. How much sense does it make to > adopt technologies pushed by some companies which could further lock > us in. We are struggling to get out of non-free and jail created by > MS and colonial cousins, before we could break that another jail is > awaiting. >
Well, I have been waiting to see the FOSS response to this for a while now. It is an interesting problem to solve. Of course, just calling it a trap doesn't suffice. You have to provide an alternative. It is a very interesting technology which will obviously change the way many applications can work. It challenges the whole notion of how computing is done today. The only response to it from a FOSS POV is to provide an alternate business model. Something similar to how the SETI project(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing), or even Tor works. - Sandip _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
