Posts Tagged "freedom"

Cloud computing, what’s the point?

Posted by on Nov 30, 2009 in Adam Gray, Google, Linux | 0 comments

For a long time I was, like most people, of the opinion that there didn’t seem to be much point in cloud computing. After all, I’ve got loads of storage on my computer in the office, 3.5tb of additional hard disk space, and ample storage on my laptop which I carry around when I’m out and about. Best of all… IT”S ALL MINE! As a society we seem to have an obsession with ownership. Houses, cars, data, software… if we spend some money we want to own it. But why? I can understand it with houses (although not so much so at the moment). But a couple of months ago, the penny...

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