In message <[email protected]>, John
Taylor <[email protected]> writes
Malcolm
Can't you see. Cloud computing is monopolistic. That is it's great attraction.
All computing will finish up in the hands of a select few and they
will control everything.
If you write a really useful piece of software they will market it for
you and if they are not interested there will be no one else to sell it
to.
Yes there will be choice, but just as there is with supermarkets, it
will be limited.
What about security? The Cloud vendors may be honest, but what about
their employees.
Your data could be at risk.
I keep photographs on SmugMug, but personal information, no way.
The whole idea horrifies me.
John Taylor (another long term lurker.)
Hi John,
Nice to hear from you.
You may be right, about cloud computing, yet that is the way they make
money.
As you say, it may be that "All computing will finish up in the hands of
a select few and they will control everything".
That may be the future, or a possible future.
Not the way that we have known it.
Although people who do creative work for television and film, for
example, have always had to work through a very restrictive outlet.
--
Malcolm Cadman
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