it's about time the free software foundation (fsf.org) as well as free software supporters, advocates, and evangelists, lifted their heads from the sandbox most of them have buried their heads into.
for software has jumped out of tape-reels and floppies, away from cds to more of downloads, and quite soon, will rapidly move away from hard-disks, to the 'hosted computing model' and its ilk. or, in brutally simplistic words, 'software inside a web-browser' available on almost any device, but hosted and maintained over servers on the internet. microsoft has just launched Microsoft Azure, that milestones the software as a service strategy. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10076004-56.html this, and other similar services, have the potential of locking away your software, and your individual or enterprise data, through a service-model approach. they may also bring in issues of both privacy and DRM into sharper focus. time to start a discussion on GPL v4, anyone? or would the free-software community do it in hindsight? regards niyam bhushan -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
