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Richard Stallman's 2008 warning that cloud computing is a trap resurfaces
Original: Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman (2008)
A 2008 Guardian interview has resurfaced in which GNU founder Richard Stallman called cloud computing 'a trap' aimed at forcing people to buy locked-down computers and hand over their data to centralized providers. He urged users to keep their data on their own machines and reject services like Google Docs. Readers are debating how accurately his warning anticipated today's concentration of computing power in a handful of big tech companies.
Why now: The interview is being revisited because debates over cloud dependence and big tech concentration have renewed interest in Stallman's early critique.
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