In The Beginning …
There was a computer. (04:53)
There were terminals. (05:06)
There were users. (05:26)
… and the users had freedom. (05:48)
… Then Freedom Eluded Us
They built licensing walls. (06:45)
By separating the software from the computer. (07:12)
- Who Invented Licensing? (07:20)
Who Invented Licensing?
Some think he did:
Hai Hobbyists! Softwearz gived free-domes, but I ated them.
(07:50)
- Gates convinces IBM to license rather then acquire DOS. (08:10)
Who Fixed this Problem?
(08:40)
RMS: My Old Boss
Job at MIT’s AI lab in late 1970s and early 1980s. (08:46)
Programming their PDP–10! (09:04)
In the Golden Age. (09:12)
MIT AI Lab: The Golden Age
- academic computing. (09:15)
- software sharing. (09:17)
- no licenses! (09:49)
MIT AI Lab
MIT changed. (10:10)
GNU
Changes the world. (10:53)
For the user of individual computers. (11:13)
No reason now not to have freedom on your own machine. (11:35)
Users and “The Cloud”
(19:20)
Users and “The Cloud”
(19:38)
Even Worse Than Proprietary Apps and OS’es
Meanwhile, My Old Boss Says …
“[Cloud Computing] is stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign.”
That’s his way of telling the next generation to deal with challenge. (20:48)
What’s that challenge? (21:03)
How Do We Start?
You’ve already started. (23:02)
Infrastructure that respects freedom. (23:07)
Empower the user: give them all the code. (23:19)
“Future” of the Cloud
Disjoint but Integrated. (28:24)
Portable and Autonomous. (28:40)
Developers decide next direction. (28:56)
- Ask the question in Cloud projects: (29:01)
- Are we respecting the users’ freedom and autonomy? (29:05)
The data is theirs; we are their custodians. (29:22)
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