On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:00:12PM -0400, Les Orchard wrote:
On 3/18/11 12:31 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:Cloud computing is a buzzword that can mean anything and nothing. It can mean "computing centralized and virtualized" but I prefer to use it for "web of computers", i.e. the internet as intended: woven together complex enough to be resilient to interruptions.A pencil can be a tool dangerous to human beings if used cleverly. Similarly with cloud computing. All things can be used or abused.FreedomBox is not about avoiding cloud computing, or about tolerating it in public sphere(s). FreedomBox is about _using_ cloud computing.+1This may or may not entirely agree with what you mean, but: I'd like my FreedomBox to be my command center for the cloud.It may itself be a service provider in a web of computers (eg. I run Wordpress in my house on port 80). But, I'd also like mine to be a private node that orchestrates the use of things like Amazon S3, Rackspace, Nearly Free Speech, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Correct: That absolutely does not at all agree with what I mean.Orchestrating centralized services from home may be cloud computing, but not a silverlining of it and thus unrelated to FreedomBox!
(hint: try read again the part you skipped from above quote) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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