Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-03 Thread Raj Shekhar
in infinite wisdom Sandip Bhattacharya spoke thus On 10/02/2008 12:14 AM: 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. Check the

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-02 Thread Sharninder
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. http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/ FYI: redhat is also working on some cloud computing projects

[ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
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,

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
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

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 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

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thursday 02 October 2008 00:19:51 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: I quite agree with RMS. When we work locally at least data is with us. Cloud computing followed by SaaS is a dangerous stuff. There can I am not saying that I disagree with RMS about the software freedom dangers of cloud computing in

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am disagreeing is with the FOSS world not attempting to even touch the technology because the closed source business model is the only one we see. The technology is really attractive, and there is no doubt that

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Angad Singh
Hi all, Interesting discussion. You might want to have a look at Project Caroline. Its an open platform which will let anyone host their own SaaS platform, does not lock-in into any particular technology or language or vendor, its source code is completely open and follows open standards.