RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free

BillyG noted an RMS interview where he says "'Software as a service' means that you think of a particular server as doing your computing for you. If that's what the server does, you must not use it! If you do your computing on someone else's server, you hand over control of your computing to whoever controls the server. It is like running binary-only software, only worse: it's even harder for you to patch the program that's running on someone else's server than it is to patch a binary copy of a program running on your own computer. Just like non-free software, 'software as a service' is incompatible with your freedom."

Comments

Incompatible with RSM you mean...

[Cheviot]

I get it, I get it Rich... but come on, this kind of ranting is just getting old. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it bad.

Re:He's showing his myopia.

[0xdeadbeef]

LOL, insulting, really? To suggest that those with little avoid the temptation to become completely dependent on those with much?

Eat your colonialism - it's good for you!

Re:He has a history

[cliffski]

wow.

Its easy to see how he waffles on about free software. When you don't pay any rent, I guess free software sounds great.

back in the real world, commercial software devs like me need to both pay our rent, and to pay our taxes, some of which get spent subsidising that guys existence.

To quote Harrison Ford in 'sabrina' when linus larabie talks to his leeching deadbeat brother

"my life makes your life possible."

Someone needs to tell RMS that.

Re:He has a history

[cliffski]

if you listen to anything a dumbass fundamentalist hippy like RMS says, you need mental help.