Damn. Up to now I pretty much had a 100% personal batting average when it comes to Stallman. IMO he mostly doesn't have a leg to stand on in ANY of his opinions. He is, in general, a clown. His previous programming work was excellent. His advocacy work has been less than zero. Peter Woit has an excellent book on String Theory called "Not Even Wrong" - and Stallman's advocacy work has in general followed that description 99.99999% of the time.
But here I'm in 100% agreement with the spirit AND the facts of his argument. For once (and only once AFAICT) he is dead on. How about that! It is true what is said about broken clocks being right twice a day! The EU won't have a leg to stand on in this case. If you think that they do you don't understand the pettiness and small-mindedness of the USA courts. Yeah - Google, Facebook, and all them boys will win for sure... On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/15/stallman_on_chrome_os/ > > Pretty strong opinions: > > "I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing [the > way Stallman calls cloud computing], because there's a sucker born every > minute." > > Apart this fine and constructive statement, there's a valid argument IMHO: > > "In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a > company's machines instead of your own," Stallman tells /The Guardian/ < > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/dec/14/chrome-os-richard-stallman-warning>. > "The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from > you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it > without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a > search warrant." > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
