Re: The ASP nightmare: a description
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- Subject: Re: The ASP nightmare: a description
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:38:25 +0200
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- In-reply-to: <87wuj4plrx.fsf_-_@wasp.nowan.org> (Jeremy Hankins's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:55:30 -0500")
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Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org> writes:
> Maybe they provide a sort of stripped down client computer with a
> browser (possibly all proprietary) that is set up to use their
> server for all your computing needs.
In this case, you lose becaus you haven't got a general-purpose
computer to run free software on. It doesn't matter if the ASP uses
free software or not (most likely it won't). Software hoarding is the
least problem caused by pervasive success of ASPs.
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