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Richard Stallman thinks cloud computing is a trap for users - if applications and data are managed "in the cloud", users might become dependent on propietary systems whose costs will escalate or whose terms of service might be changed unilaterally and adversely:
"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. somebody is saying this is enevitable - and whenever you hear somebody saying that, its very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true"
(siehe Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing: http://d1smfj0g31qzek.cloudfront.net/abovetheclouds.pdf)
Stallman, who is a staunch privacy advocate, advised users to stay local and stick with their own computers.
"One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software."
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