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| Wikileaks proved Stallman is correct? |
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| Tuesday, 14 December 2010 16:28 |
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Of the strong no sayers of cloud computing, Richard Stallman stands tall. Though many dismissed his thoughts as just another shot from this free software preacher. But the recent events connected with wikileaks proved he is somewhat correct. Amazon.com Inc. Inc. says it stopped hosting WikiLeaks from its Web servers because the controversial group violated its terms of service. Earlier, WikiLeaks had turned to Amazon's Web services after its servers in Sweden were hit by large scale ddos attacks. WikiLeaks "doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content," one of the stipulations of Amazon's contractual terms,said Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener. For the uninitiated, Amazon provides cloud based service on which wikileaks hosted its site after it was attacked. In cloud computing big providers provide resources(space for hosting, applications,....) in an on demand basis.Large internet and technology companies including Google, Microsoft and Amazon has cloud based services.But Richard Stallman 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. But the problem is more than that as now the wikileaks episode proves. Wikileaks proves the problem of handing over data to a third party. With no proper standards and service level agreements in force, big companies are twisting the the laws as they like. This is what RMS clearly said years ago. "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." says Stallman
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| Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 December 2010 16:38 |
