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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 is recirculating in which GNU founder Richard Stallman called cloud computing 'a trap' aimed at forcing people to buy locked-down machines and hand their data to centralised providers. He urged users to keep data on their own computers, arguing vendors would otherwise be tempted to spy on them. The years-old warning is being debated again as cloud dependence has grown far beyond what anyone predicted then.
Why now: Renewed debate over cloud dependence and data ownership has revived Stallman's prescient critique from 2008.
Richard StallmanGNUThe Guardian
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