Is cloud computing a threat to open source?
Why the demise of proprietary software is creating a vacuum which is about to be filled... and we may not like it.
The second wave of freedom arrived as a package. The Word Wide Web and Linux are roughly contemporaneous. It is hard to over emphasise the liberating effect of open access to the web and free, open source software. At a stroke proprietary software and network-related strangleholds were rendered irrelevant. Once again an explosion of possibilities and freedoms has occurred and is occurring at a considerable rate.
Today I own my own hardware (actually I have quite a lot of it), no-one person or company owns or controls my software and I have the Web to play in. We are living in an unprecedented era of freedom. Thanks guys, thanks Tim B-L, thanks Linus T, thanks Richard S.
I think this freedom is under threat
My fear is that the web will be subsumed by the 'Clouds' servers and it will be controlled by hardware vendors.
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