Cloud Computing: Good or Bad for Open Source?

"Richard Stallman has no doubts:

""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.

"Go on, Richard, tell us what you really think."

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