http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/05/24/open-source-and-cloud-computing/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/05/24/open-source-and-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-89056 Tim Armstrong Tue, 26 May 2009 16:13:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/?p=531#comment-89056 Sounds like a fascinating talk, Derek — thanks a million for posting your summary! My recollection (which I am unable to back up with a citation, sorry; so take it for what it's worth) is that Richard Stallman has argued against using cloud-based services for some of the very reasons you identify, namely that in doing so, you give up some of the control over your own information that is the central philosophical concern of the “free software” branch of the F/OSS movement. Myself, I’m so dependent on Gmail now that it would take a major catastrophe or security breach to make me revert to local e-mail storage, but it’s good to keep in mind the tradeoffs that my dependency entails. Sounds like a fascinating talk, Derek — thanks a million for posting your summary! My recollection (which I am unable to back up with a citation, sorry; so take it for what it’s worth) is that Richard Stallman has argued against using cloud-based services for some of the very reasons you identify, namely that in doing so, you give up some of the control over your own information that is the central philosophical concern of the “free software” branch of the F/OSS movement. Myself, I’m so dependent on Gmail now that it would take a major catastrophe or security breach to make me revert to local e-mail storage, but it’s good to keep in mind the tradeoffs that my dependency entails.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/05/24/open-source-and-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-89051 sy Tue, 26 May 2009 11:48:11 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/?p=531#comment-89051 Thanks for this, Derek. If you have time, you may want to tune into the Berkman luncheon today: <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/soghoian" rel="nofollow">Caught in the Cloud: Privacy, Encryption, and Government Back Doors in the Web 2.0 Era</a>. Thanks for this, Derek. If you have time, you may want to tune into the Berkman luncheon today: Caught in the Cloud: Privacy, Encryption, and Government Back Doors in the Web 2.0 Era.

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