[nycbug-talk] on a 'lighter note' about cloud computing

[Marc Spitzer]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:14 PM, pete <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:03:47 -0400, George Rosamond
> <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
>> RMS himself stands with Ellison :)
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4otvb6
>>
> ah - now i'm just confused.  i've never really agreed with RMS before... :P
>

I have agreed with RMS on tech issues, but I have never agreed with
him on his politics, FSF/GPL is politics.  His "right to read" essay
is interesting in that things are playing out in a similar way with
the licensing of content, music being the most common case.  But when
he get into how the market plays into things then he blows it as it is
a religious issue with him,IMO.

marc

>
>> And the full Guardian article:
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>> http://tinyurl.com/4h9o2h
>>
>
> although i think he's taking exception with the whole ASP (application
> service provider ala gmail and salesforce.com etc) side of things - whereas
> i'm just being a grumpy old man tired of sales pitches ;)
>
> ok - i'll go away now, thanks for feeding my inner troll gman!  heh.
>
> -pete
>
> --
> Pete Wright
> pete at nomadlogic.org
> 310.869.9459
>
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