Tag Archives: cloud
The cloud of spies
Microsoft is not hiding the sad and cruel truth: you’re not safe from being spied when you put your data in the cloud. Any data which is housed, stored or processed by a company, which is a U.S. based company … Continue reading
“Bump” and your data go to the cloud
When investigating the design of the FreedomBox app to exchange keys and establish trust between two people I looked at how the Bump App for iPhone and Android solves the issue. From their FAQ: Q: How does Bump work? A: … Continue reading
MediaGoblin project brings GNU into the cloud
GNU MediaGoblin is a new software project that will enable people to publish, share and distribute their photos, video and other media in the cloud. Think of it as mix of social sites like Flickr, YouTube, DeviantArt or Facebook but … Continue reading
Why free software applications are a priority on mobile platforms (not device drivers)
Bradley wrote about mobile software freedom, a field that I’m obviously deep into because of my work at Funambol. His quite long article Musings on Software Freedom for Mobile Devices contains an analysis of the situation, which mobile platforms are … Continue reading
Eben Moglen’s Freedom in the Cloud Talk
I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric: The … Continue reading
The cost of monopoly in the cloud
Reading of the latest cyber attacks against South Korea and USA digital systems, I remembered a rather old post from Gen Kanai @Mozilla, the cost of a monoculture. It’s about monopoly, government decisions and security in the cloud. [South Korea] … Continue reading
Locked devices, GPLv3 and the path to mobile freedom
In a recent discussion with friends I realized that tivoization is a sub-optimal world to describe the problem that the Free Software community has with freedom being controlled by those that control the hardware. The word clearly targets one specific … Continue reading
Mobile phone markets are designed to split our community
Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter … Continue reading
Liberating the cloud one block at the time
The issue is how to bring the values of free software community to the cloud. According to reports from Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Bradley Kuhn‘s speech has addressed the issue.’ I hope he will include it in the next … Continue reading
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