This is going to be short. Stallman is right. I don’t agree with everything he says, ever. But his is an important voice and is the kind of person we always need to have: on the fringe and keeping us from becoming complacent.
He is right that the “Cloud” is not the place you want to be just to be there. If there is a valid reason for it, use it. Most folks using the “Cloud” today are just overly excited about Web 2.0 stuff for no real reason, except perhaps that they work in the industry. For 99% of people, there is no need nor any reason to have everything or much of anything up on the cloud. It’s all a bunch of buzz. Web 2.0 will largely die a death like that of the dot-com 90’s. In the process, though, a lot of suckers will get burned by it.
My how history is cyclical…
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There are plenty of valid reasons for using the utility computing model. The statement that “for 99% of people, there is no need nor any reason to have everything or much of anything up on the cloud,” ignores that completely.
Demeaning a new technology because of its buzzword status strikes me as tired thinking, especially when you fail to specify what exactly you mean by “cloud computing,” which is still a nebulous concept. Personally, I’d rather hear cloud computing get criticized for its technical merits than the contention that “it’s all a bunch of buzz.”
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