On 16/05/13 19:06, Patrick Anderson wrote:
> http://foocorp.org/projects/__fooplug/
<http://foocorp.org/projects/fooplug/>
Soon the majority of users will be storing and computing in
"The Cloud" because of the massive convenience and
safety and efficiency of that approach.
Possibly. But this will be because it's how they are steered by their
device vendors. Cloud outages are not convenient, being spied on
automatically and keeping sensitive information online isn't safe, and
increased bandwidth usage isn't necessarily more efficient.
> But none of this is an excuse for a free culture organization to not
use the existing free software solutions.
The software is free as in freedom, but the hardware is not.
I'm not unsympathetic to this argument, I've tracked "Open Hardware",
"Free Networks" and IT coops for years. But the perfect is the enemy of
the good in this instance. We have to start somewhere.
Let's do the best with what we've got.
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