Actually, it often seems like "the cloud" is more along the lines of DRM. It enables software providers to guarantee payment, it often guarantees for vendors th

Actually, it often seems like "the cloud" is more along the lines of DRM. It enables software providers to guarantee payment, it often guarantees for vendors the ability to totally cut service whenever they want to. To absolutely guarantee nobody can touch their software except through them, so customer's can't automate anything without going through (and paying) the authors. Secure computing, but in the way that's always been done: secure from the customer. Not secure for the customer.