Cloud services - it's a trap! Bashny.Net

Founder of GNU, the author of Emacs, GCC and the concept of copyleft Richard Stallman again expressed his opinion about the cloud service where users increasingly store personal files. Richard refers to this idea with abhorrence: "This is nonsense. It's worse than stupidity: it is a company of marketing promotion ».

According to the cult leader of Open Source, cloud services - it's just a trap, whose aim is to drive people into the closed, proprietary system. Initially free, but over time it will cost people more and more expensive. "Someone said that it is inevitable - but almost always he is saying is some company that just deals with implementation of these plans».

Richard Stallman and again repeats the truths that users should have full control over their information, to keep it in his hands, and not to transfer to third parties.

Surprisingly, this time the words of Richard Stallman reflect the views of its exact opposite - a billionaire, a malicious enemy Open Source, the founder of Oracle, which built its business in cooperation with the CIA and the NSA - Larry Ellison. Just last week, he criticized the newfangled cloud services, calling them "fashionable trends» (fashion-driven) and "total nonsense» (complete gibberish).

"The interesting thing about cloud computing, which is now beginning to call these words all the technology on which we have long been working on. The computer industry - the world's only industry that is more fashion admires, than the women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I do not understand what everyone is saying. What is the cloud? This is complete nonsense. This is madness. When this idiocy stop? "- Said CEO Larry Ellison.

Richard Stallman explains that the use of web-based application for the processing of personal data - it's as bad as it used a proprietary program. "Do your calculations on your own computer with your copy of a free program. If you use a proprietary program or someone else's web server, you're defenseless. You find yourself in complete bondage to the owners of this system. "





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