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Re: Emacs in the Cloud
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs in the Cloud |
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Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:17:55 -0400 |
Before I go on, I think I basically understand Richard's (and others) strong
anti-cloud stance:
Those words give an inaccurate impression of where I stand.
The term "cloud computing" is nebulous; people use it to refer to many
different ways of using the network, which raise different issues. As
a result, it is effectively meaningless. It is foolish to be "against
cloud computing" or "for cloud computing". I decline to take any such
broad stand. Instead I say that it is a mistake to use the term
"cloud computing".
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.
What I say is that to have control of your computing, you need to do
it with _your copy_ of a free program. Thus, never do your computing
in someone else's server. (Doing so is Software as a Service.) See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html.
Thus, running someone else's copy of Emacs through a thin client is
something we discourage.
I also share your concern about what servers do with the information
they get about us, and that is not limited to "sensitive data".
See http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protection-malte-spitz.
and http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html?_r=1
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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Boston MA 02110
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- Emacs in the Cloud, Paul Michael Reilly, 2011/07/24
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Andreas Röhler, 2011/07/24
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/07/25
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Julien Danjou, 2011/07/25
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, joakim, 2011/07/25
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Julien Danjou, 2011/07/25
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, James Cloos, 2011/07/25
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/25
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Bill Wohler, 2011/07/25
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Ken Raeburn, 2011/07/26
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, David Engster, 2011/07/26
- Re: Emacs in the Cloud, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/07/26