nsane.forums Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Open source guru warns of cloud computing Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Federation, has slammed Google’s new operating system as "careless computing.†In an interview with The Guardian Stallman said that the new operating system would be a hindrance, not a help to many users since its reason d’être was to promote cloud computing and remove users from having control of their own data. "In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own,†he said. “The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant." He said that the term cloud computing was essentially a meaningless marketing slogan designed to distract people from the reality of handing data over to third parties. While the operating system did garner some praise from Stallman however for its open source roots. "In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications," he said. "I'd say the problem is in the nature of the job ChromeOS is designed to do. Namely, encourage you to keep your data elsewhere, and do your computing elsewhere, instead of doing it in your own computer." View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oZ. Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 lmao Chromeanything from Google but Chrome please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrVoice Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Cloud OS = the most dangerous idea in modern computing. I recommend never trusting it, and if Windows 8 becomes an all-cloud system, I will be moving to Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Stallman brings up some very interesting points. In addition to the data being off site, another problem is that depending on how laws change, when that data gets transfered to the computer, it may be open to capture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaLeigh Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Jumping on the Google OS band wagon would be very difficult to do, especially with technology as advanced as it is today. Microsoft OSes have progressed in tandem with that growth. We all put up with it, because there really wasn't a viable alternative, since mostly all corporations use Microsoft products to do business. At the end of the day, a reliable OS is based upon history and application. At this point in time, I'd much rather invest my "new OS learning curve time" using (X) Ubuntu or another tried-and-true open source OS. Let's see how the Google OS fares in the next five to seven years, if they do, at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioActive Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 He said that the term cloud computing was essentially a meaningless marketing slogan designed to distract people from the reality of handing data over to third parties. A very interesting point indeed, never thought of it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 16, 2010 Administrator Share Posted December 16, 2010 Something to note for the normal PC lovers. All the people who were supporting the Cloud OS idea and were investing their time on it, have started giving negative reviews about it. Saying that it's nothing in front of normal PCs and Google is thinking beyond the current times than on concentrating on it. Seems that Stallman's views have done a great impact. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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