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No clouds fo rme, thanks.

twaynesdomain Updated - 4th Mar 2010

I think it is a foe, IFF people have such short memories that they forget what made Open Source so appealing in the first place, and still does.
One "problem" is that too many people, including a lot in the various industries, see Open Source as nothing but "free" applications when it is so much more than that!
The clouds are again a very single-source-based problem, even more so than our previous proprietary applications, since you never ever have the application on your own computer. Worse, you're at the mercy of the "concensus" of others for a lot of implementations as opposed to doing things the way they work best for YOU.
Once into a cloud in any way, much as street gangs operate, you'll never leave it with any ability to maintain your data without them. It might be Word 11 when you sign up, and Word 14 by the time you leave, and guess what? Word14 won't be for sale to the public! Pay many thousands as the clouders do, and you can have it; otherwise your just plain SOL. I wouldn't say that won't happen in probably several different ways, if I were to think it's an incorrect summation.
And that's all in addition to the currently recognized problems of hijacking your data and figures and rights as it goes into and out of the cloud, thru a gazillion nodes and servers. If they live long enough for that to occur, which won't take long, then you'll suddenly find a new, wonderful internet created and you will help pay for it by the bit, not the byte even! Just watch and see!

Nuh, uh, I'll keep my privates on my own machine, and the ability to maintain my designs right here at home on m,y desktop/laptop/LAN, whatever.

Usually clouds in the sky mean rain coming; I think it applies as well for applications, too. Where it had a good idea at first, closer scrutiny reveals insurmountable problems ranging from being trapped in one cloud to losing your rights to the data and to all the crim8inals/hackers out there anxious to start their new life's work with only one place they have to concentrate on, or one set of similar servers, however they end up related.

No clouds for me, thanks.