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FSF-Gründer Richard Stallman hat sich im britischen Guardian zu Cloud Computing geäussert:

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.” The 55-year-old New Yorker said that computer users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand it over to a third party.

Wer keine Ahnung hat, was Cloud Computing ist: Das ist das Konzept, um Daten auf zentralen Servern auszulagern. Google-Mail und eigentlich das ganze Google-Applikationen-System ist ein Beispiel dafür.