Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap

stevedcc writes in to tell us about an interview with RMS in The Guardian, in which he gives his views on cloud computing, with a particular focus on user access to data and the sacrifices made for convenience. "'It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,' he told The Guardian. 'Somebody is saying this is inevitable — and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.'" Computerworld has a summary of some of the blogosphere's reaction to RMS's position.

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Re:yeah he's right

[globaljustin]

Can you give any examples of somewhere someone has used "web 2.0" to mean something other than not refreshing the page to communicate to the server?

In the context of our discussion, this should be significant enough. Yes the wiki mentions AJAX, etc. and the fact that some things that people call "web 2.0" use applications that do not require full page loading, but the criticism section addresses that directly.

here's an example:

Time magazine named "You and Web 2.0" as the "person of the year" and all through the article they talk about things like blogs, wikis, you tube, facebook, and all kinds of other things that span the spectrum of the internet, and most of them do not meet your criteria...

and don't reply back saying "well on paragraph 8 of that article it talks about AJAX" b/c that doesn't prove anything...your contention is that web 2.0 means "pages that don't have to reload to change content" and the Time article, among MANY others uses "web 2.0" as an umbrella term for just about anything on the internet that is new and "cool"

Look, you're using a logical fallacy, trying to force me into some false threshold of proof saying "there are millions of places where they use it the way I use it...not so fast...

In your reply, please specifically address the content of the wikipedia entry (esp. under the "criticism" section) and somehow explain how Time magazine isn't an exemplar about the mainstream usage of a term...then we can talk...