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."

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Most people do not value freedom as highly as RMS

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subject says it all. There are many trade-offs and life. Most people prefer security to freedom.
Which explains both the high level of support for Bush after 9/11 ( people though he could and would keep them safe ) and the high support for Obama when the economy turns ( people thought he could. fix things so their jobs and finances would be more secure.). The fact is both of them have and/or will continue to take actions that take away much of the freedom that is promised in the constitution of this country. Obama is an expert and capitalizing on and using that fear.
I guess it is sad, but at the end of the day people who do not value freedom more that safety and comfort will have no safety , no freedom and little comfort, because their fear will be used to take their freedom and without freedom the powerful will eat them like the sheep they choose to be and treat them less then the dogs under their tables
  Americans stopped being a people who truly value their freedom.
Really it comes down to the rise of materialism and atheism, if you donâ(TM)t believe there is such a thing as free-will, how can you believe in something like freedom.
Besides re-stating the obvious RMS goals would be served best by promoting religion.