Oh dear. Don Norman has discovered why free software is about freedom and what the cloud business model is really about. "One reason you should not use web app

Oh dear. Don Norman has discovered why free software is about freedom and what the cloud business model is really about. "One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software."[1] He dismisses GNU/Linux right off the bat, even though the very reason why GNU was even born[2] is the very same problem he is starting to admit (given where he worked, I think he saw this ...but now that he no longer seem to profit from it enough to even get his blackberry roaming payed for him by The Company Overlord -- welcome to the reality of the majority). Just visit http://www.debian.org/ http://www.debian.org/ and download http://www.libreoffice.org/ http://www.libreoffice.org/ and do something about it, instead of musing and whining (I am awaiting a functionality he would need that is missing). [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.compu... [2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html