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I like this article. Its like saying "Lets not use banks cause they can just take your money, profit from it, and may not even give it back to you." Which, iro
by Spyckie 18y ago
I like this article.
Its like saying "Lets not use banks cause they can just take your money, profit from it, and may not even give it back to you." Which, ironically, is true because of the financial crisis.
The solution though is not to "use in-house computers" (or store your money under a mattress). I think it would be to build your own cloud computer services based on a free software model.
- evgen 18y agoEasier said than done. Like building your own currency or financial system, it is easy to create a toy and very difficult to scale this out where you have to deal with trust issues, counter-party risk, and transactional overhead. Free software is easy, free hardware and bandwidth is not.
- coolestuk 18y agoIt is not necessary to use open source software to be able to protect your data (provided the applications have an API or some method of exporting your data in a parsable format). It's also not difficult to build your own secure, replicable network in the Cloud. Get a Linode and a Slicehost, install a Notes server on them both, keep your data locally and in two secure, encrypted automated backups in the Cloud. Whenever you don't have access to your local Notes, you can even have elected to make all or just portions of your data available via a browser and https. addendum: Forgot to mention, total cost for the Notes client and server licenses: about $150 for 1 user but any number of servers. And Notes will run on Windows, Linux, OS X, ...