It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. ... Somebody is saying this is inevitable—and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

— Richard Stallman, Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman (2008)

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman

Quoted by journalist Johnson in a 2008 Guardian article on cloud computing.

Topics: distributed systems