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But the cloud does provide value to me. I can spend a few bucks and a few minutes to set up Google Apps for email on my domain. It takes hours of futzing to con

by morninj 11y ago

But the cloud does provide value to me. I can spend a few bucks and a few minutes to set up Google Apps for email on my domain. It takes hours of futzing to configure a home email server. My time is valuable, so the cloud service is worth it. I'd love to have a comparable platform that I could run from my closet, but that's still in the distance. For now, cloud services are usually the best way to minimize cost.

copsarebastards 11y ago
> I can spend a few bucks and a few minutes to set up Google Apps for email on my domain. This is a perfect example of what I'm saying: this has nothing to do with the cloud, and everything to do with the tooling Google Apps provides. There's nothing preventing the open source community from implementing equivalent tooling which targets federated servers.