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Who's losing? The users are.

• fixermark 11y ago
  How?
  • teddyh 11y ago
    Monopolies and oligopolies are always bad for users. Not to mention that many of these companies are in the business of things which directly harms users: Advertisements, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service, etc.
    • fixermark 11y ago
      Advertisements are controversial, but this is the first assertion I've heard that SaaS and Cloud computing directly harm users.
      • oldmanjay 11y ago
        Clearly you haven't read the religious tracts from the free software believers.
      • belorn 11y ago
        The harm comes from users who treat third-party servers as if it was equal safe and private as a server standing inside the company walls. How many lawyers use SaaS or cloud computing and put information trusted by their clients in the hands of third-party (without ever informing their clients). How many hospitals has data flying around, in plain text, about people very sensitive situations that they entrusted to their doctors? How many political parties and government institution has databases being sent to third-party organization because they move their internal servers to the cloud and didn't consider the impact? There are laws, and the laws governing how sensitive data did never get enforced before it became to late. Now we are in the situation that enforcing a strict control would paralyze governments and organizations all over the world, and as a result nothing is being done.