Stallman: Cloud Computing is Idiotic
Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and well known privacy advocate, thinks cloud computing is a bad idea - and that is putting it mildly.
The Guardian UK quotes him as saying:
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"
Ouch.
If you have an idea to start a business and you can get your hardware, databases and other apps today and pay only for what you need right now (not now plus the next two years), you don't have to spend more time raising capital than developing your idea, and cloud computing doesn't lock you in any more than running apps on your own servers, why not?
I'm not sure why Stallman thinks it will lock us in any more than other delivery models. I'm just as locked in if I run Oracle on my own server than if I run it on Amazon's cloud.
We're all beneficiaries of Stallman's contributions to computing but these comments are definitely at the less useful end of the spectrum of his work.
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