[GRLUG] Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

[Tim Schmidt]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Benjamin Eavey <ben at eavey.com> wrote:
> Privacy issues notwithstanding, as long as I can export my files to
> open formats (as you can with Google) and move them to wherever I
> might need to go, I'm happy.

You can today.  But you have no reasonably expectation that you will
be able to tomorrow.  Unless you routinely export your document(s)
after each change and archive them somewhere, an export feature is not
an effective escape plan.

--tim