[PLUG] Cloud Computing... ?  Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhartiya
at gmail.com Tue Sep 30 23:42:46 PDT 2008  > Humbly speaking..
how do we know the author's thoughts are not clouded :-) > Looks
more like "Gnu Linux" to me (i mean, "Cloud Computing" :-) > --
I quite agree with RMS. When we work locally at least data is
with us. Cloud computing followed by SaaS is a dangerous stuff.
There can be a lot of legal issues, for example, two years ago I
did a story of Iran where US based companies were banned for
offering any service in the nation. The entire nation came to
knees as from basic emailing to ticket reservation and
everything else depended on MS and other proprietary
technologies. Now, where were they going to get support from?
They switched to GNU/Linux and Free Software and they are
building upon it. Now, since the companies operate globally how
and why should the parent nation control that? What if India
refused to sign Nuclear Treaty, and US puts embargo on India
Google, Yahoo, and all US based companie