{"id":3554,"date":"2013-06-10T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:56:21","slug":"cloud-computing-is-a-trap-warns-gnu-founder-technology-guardian-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/06\/10\/cloud-computing-is-a-trap-warns-gnu-founder-technology-guardian-co-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

YES!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is yet another example of the delusion that comes from being a technophile without also being fully literate in\u00a0 an increasingly technological society . With no clear understanding of the implications of cloud technology, people happily become reliant on a host of companies with worthy and not-so-worthy motives. I come across more academics and educators who blindly park their personal IP out there with no back-up, and no contingency should something go wrong.<\/p>\n

cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.<\/p>\n

“It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign,” he told The Guardian.<\/p>\n

“Somebody is saying this is inevitable \u2013 and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, there is a real tendency for people in formal education to treat technology as more of a fashion item than tool.<\/p>\n

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