08-23-2017, 06:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2017, 06:08 PM by smhardesty.)
I guess I just don't understand how anyone can believe their info/data is safe and private when it's housed on a server located God only knows where. I'm old school, for sure, and I go to great lengths to protect my data. My really sensitive stuff is housed on a desktop server behind a hardware firewall. It's only turned on when I decide I need to do something with data that is located only on that machine. I do all my general communicating on this laptop. Nothing on here would be considered critical info. All my photographs for my photography hobby are on the desktop. I don't even want a copy of one of my originals getting free on the 'Net. Anything I post is usually a reduced resolution type image with copyright info attached and sometimes includes a watermark. So to be forced to store all my data on a server somewhere out in cyberspace just gives me cold chills.
The same is true for being forced to use an application on a cloud server. I'll just never do it. The real driving force behind doing such a thing is greed, pure and simple. If word processors, spreadsheets, and web browsers are no longer made available to install on locally and personally owned hardware, the software producers would charge a "per use" fee every time we want to use that type application. We'd be required to provide credit card info and then each time we use that app, BANG, a credit card charge. Nope. Not me!
And let me add. If general computing ever does reach the point where it's all done on a "cloud" device, my monthly contribution to developers that still produce a distribution like Lite will increase considerably. I'd rather pay Jerry and the guys twice as much as it would cost for cloud computing to keep all my apps and data on my own hardware.
The same is true for being forced to use an application on a cloud server. I'll just never do it. The real driving force behind doing such a thing is greed, pure and simple. If word processors, spreadsheets, and web browsers are no longer made available to install on locally and personally owned hardware, the software producers would charge a "per use" fee every time we want to use that type application. We'd be required to provide credit card info and then each time we use that app, BANG, a credit card charge. Nope. Not me!
And let me add. If general computing ever does reach the point where it's all done on a "cloud" device, my monthly contribution to developers that still produce a distribution like Lite will increase considerably. I'd rather pay Jerry and the guys twice as much as it would cost for cloud computing to keep all my apps and data on my own hardware.
Steve
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