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The Kindness of strangers can defeat Proprietary Cloud Computing. Free Software
Solutions
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| Fashion is fickle. One day thin clients and clusters are the fashion de jour,
| the next it’s Web 2.0, Virtualisation or distributed computing and Grids.
| They who live by the sword of fashion will surely perish by it but a new
| model has been strutting its stuff along the catwalk of web fashion and she
| goes by the name of Cloud Computing. Like all fashions there is a deal of
| hype surrounding it but there is a consistent concern emerging from all that
| hype and is about the dangers of proprietary cloud computing. Richard
| Stallman has called it a “trap”. He is right—but it is more than that. It is
| a well-baited, DRM-like honey trap for the unwary. That is not immediately
| obvious. Like all good traps it suckers you in before the wire noose tightens
| around your neck. You don’t have any wire cutters in your rucksack but you do
| have the GPL and free software to effect an escape. Can it save us from
| vendor lock in and proprietary software?
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/kindness_strangers_can_defeat_proprietary_cloud_computing_free_software_solutions
Recent:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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