[Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

[S.Ramaswamy]

>
> Apropos some flaming^Wdiscussion that took place on this list
> earier.
>
>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/stallman-vs-clouds
>
> Own/control your data.

Another take:

"Are we so deranged here in the twenty-first century that we're going
to re-enact, wide-eyed, the twin tragedies of the great desktop-suite
lock-in and the great proprietary-SQL lock-in? You know, the ones
where you give a platform vendor control over your IT budget? Gimme a
break." - Tim Bray (
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/14/Cloudy-Times#c1224045003.442381
)

Ramaswamy