"But Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.
'It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,' he told The Guardian.
'Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.'"
It is kind of ironic to post this on a blog, I guess, because it exists in this cloud, and therefore does not remain on my machine and in my control. It is useful to make the link here, and not store it on my personal machine, and not download the article on Stallman to my personal machine. I see Stallman's point, but the question is more and more, "where does the cloud end?" In other words, the world of the personal machine / archive / library extends from one's own machine to the network and to the wider web in a way that is more and more seamless. There are things one wants on one's machine, and other things which are more conveniently held elsewhere.
