No Idea Niles but keeping a backup on the web is better for most. A thing I forgot to mention is that the fiber East Africa is now getting will allow one of the few remaining non (fast) connected locations on the planet to participate in the cloud so there is less reason to create software as to not discriminate people once the digital world moves towards this cloud.
Oh and Mark, Did not get what your saying... On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 20:56 -0500, Niles Collins wrote: > Sorry about the blank mail. I hit the wrong button. One big question I > have is ownership of the documents that you create that live in the > cloud. Since you are "renting" the software do you give up some > ownership. Legally this raises a lot of questions. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 22, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Monday 23 November 2009 04:22:52 am Rob Gipman wrote: > > > >> You need a document to be written and emailed? You buy 3 > >> hours of MS Word to write, for the photo's you buy Adobe > >> CSX online editing and inserting for 2 hours and for the > >> figures in there pay MS Excel for 6 hours to get the > >> calculation done. It all in the cloud with paypall > >> attached or Visa etc... > > > > We seem to be forgetting that the very folk that stand to > > benefit the most from so-called "cloud computing" are the > > same ones that would not be able to have access to credit. > > > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > > (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible > > for them in any way. > > --------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
