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Stallman Worried About Chrome OS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fear-the-cloud dept.

dkd903 noted that Stallman is speaking out about the risks of Chrome OS and giving up all your local data into the cloud, pushing people into "Careless Computing." Which is a much more urgent concern than something like calling it GNU/Chrome OS.

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  1. Frankly... by djkitsch · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...if Stallman is worried about it, it's probably worth using. Chicken Little indeed. One supposes that there might come a day when RMS realises that nobody gives a flying fuck.

    As Bruce Schneier is fond of saying, security is a trade-off. Software and information licensing is a trade-off, too, and cloud users are clearly happy with that trade-off. Having worked in web technologies for some time, I've had many "but someone else will have our data!" conversations; people are not stupid, and if they choose to keep their data elsewhere, it's because they consider it worth the up-sides. Duh.

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