There’s never a dull moment for those of us lucky enough to be part of the technology industry, and we here at LinuxInsider are just as prone as the next tech enthusiasts to get caught up in the excitement of new innovations and ideas.

Take cloud computing. It’s a concept that has been grabbing an increasing portion of the digital ink on our pages and elsewhere, thanks not only to its promise but also to the growing numbers of related announcements coming from tech companies far and wide.

So we took pause when we came across a recent interview with none other than GNU founder Richard Stallman in which he fairly smashes the concept to smithereens. "It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign," Stallman told The Guardian.

Web-based software will ultimately lock users into proprietary and expensive systems that seriously compromise privacy, Stallman argued.

Now, when virtually any comment issues from the lips of RMS, the FOSS community tends to sit up and take notice. But when those comments blast an up-and-coming new technology, let’s just say it’s pretty big news.

The topic was immediately seized upon throughout the blogosphere -- including LXer, the Linux Loop and elsewhere -- and most commentators seemed to agree with Stallman’s sentiment wholeheartedly. Read more...

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