On 01/05/2011 02:29 PM, Parin Sharma wrote: > "Cloud" has become kind of a buzzword these days and even people like > me who really care about the "Freedom" in FOSS get into this kind of > stuff thinking that if the things used in are FOSS then it gives us > Freedom too but unfortunately but that's not the case! Even if we use > AGPL'd Software in the cloud the Freedom is taken away from the user. > Some days back I watched this talk which proved to be an eye opener > for me. > > You can read the full transcript > <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc-ny/FreedomInTheCloud-transcript.html> > > or > > read summary > <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/10/highlights-eben-moglens-freedom-cloud-talk/> > > or > > > Download Audio/Video from http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338 (available in > Free Formats) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How We Can Be the Silver Lining of the Cloud
Freedom and privacy are endangered in the cloud, but we can save them. In this, the second part of my analysis of Freedom in the Cloud, I show how the Debian community can play the central role in changing the future of Net, again. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from[1], video download links are also available on this[1] link. [1] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/641.en.html -- Parin Sharma https://identi.ca/FOSSmaniac "Privacy is ultimately about liberty while surveillance is always about control" -- -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
