If Web Apps are Evil, Why Do We Use Them?

September 29, 2008 - 1:20 pm PDT - by Stan Schroeder

StallmanRichard Stallman is going berserk over cloud computing. In an interview with the Guardian, he claims that the whole thing is “stupidity.” He claims that “you should not use web applications to do your computing,” because it’s “just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else’s web server, you’re defenceless. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.”

It seems to me he’s talking about web applications and not cloud computing, which is not entirely the same thing, but nevertheless the sad thing about it is the fact that…

…he’s right. Well, partially.