{"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":"https:\/\/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":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/sep\/29\/cloud.computing.richard.stallman\">Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>YES!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/sep\/29\/cloud.computing.richard.stallman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/stallman1.article.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<blockquote><p>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<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s stupidity. It&#8217;s worse than stupidity: it&#8217;s a marketing hype campaign,&#8221; he told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody is saying this is inevitable \u2013 and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it&#8217;s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, there is a real tendency for people in formal education to treat technology as more of a fashion item than tool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"nuan_ria_plugin\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3554'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3554);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'><b>2<\/b> people like this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3554);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3554);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk. YES! 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 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/06\/10\/cloud-computing-is-a-trap-warns-gnu-founder-technology-guardian-co-uk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[389,395,53],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","tag-educational-technology","tag-information-technology","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-Vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2187,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/21\/decorative-media-trap-example-the-elements-a-visual-exploration\/","url_meta":{"origin":3554,"position":0},"title":"Decorative Media Trap Example: The Elements: A Visual Exploration","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Elements: A Visual Exploration. 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