CCT+355+Article+Analysis

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=**Article Analysis**=

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=**Cloud computing is a trap...**=

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The article is an interview with Richard Stallman, who is the founder of the Free Software Foundation as well as the developer of the worlds first free operation system; GNU. Stallman warns that cloud computing, i.e services providing software and hardware over the internet are a trap. With cloud computing, IT power is delivered over the internet reducing the need for large investments making the computer attached to the cloud simply an access point. This trend for cloud computing is on the rise with companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon providing variations of this new service to users.======

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Although this option of a 'one-time' solution for all IT needs is fairly attractive to many companies, Stallman argues that these new trendy options will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time.====== Further, Stallman argues that cloud computing will only do what our IT society is already able to do, but simply reinvented to fit a trend or a fashion. By storing information on-line and using web based applications to do our work we lose control of those files and become "putty in the hands of whoever developed the software". To avoid this, Stallman recommends users do their own computing on your own computer to avoid any potential privacy or ownership violations and to not become defenceless