"in the cloud, all users have is a herd of special-purpose appliances". The argument of the whitepaper is that our current internet and Unix environment does n

"in the cloud, all users have is a herd of special-purpose appliances". The argument of the whitepaper is that our current internet and Unix environment does not allow for anything else than a cloud with lots of special-purpose appliances, but that does not mean this is the desirable situation, neither for the appliance builders nor for their users.