OK, but EC2 is an example of the lack of freedom in 'Cloud computing'... http://www.amazon.com/AWS-License-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_c_0_201590...

My Linux-Watch colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' definition of desktop Linux popularity is rather disturbing. Today, he recounted the results of the Linux Foundation Survey 2007 in a post at DesktopLinux.com. Maybe he loves Linux just too darn much, because his take is—shall I say—over the top.

I found this story on the FSF web site. I don't know what's the impact for Free Software. Feel free to vote down the story. As a french citizen, i think it's just a shame; in a Free Society, citizens should have the right to choose themselves their future...

Source: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2773
For French readers: http://contrejournal.blogs.liberation.fr/mon_weblog/2007/12/une-haute-tr...

I'm always amused when advocates for a certain technology proclaim a dominate player like Microsoft is soon to be replaced. Steven Vaughan-Nichols made such a proclamation about Linux taking over low cost PCs on www.linuxdesktop.com.

"Nokia has filed a submission with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) objecting to the use of Ogg Theora as the baseline video standard for the Web. Ogg is an open encoding scheme (On2, the company that developed it, gave it and a free, perpetual unlimited license to its patents to the nonprofit Xiph foundation), but Nokia called it "proprietary" and argued for the inclusion of standards that can be used in conjunction with DRM, because 'from our viewpoint, any DRM-incompatible video related mechanism is a non-starter with the content industry (Hollywood). There is in our opinion no need to make DRM support mandatory, though.' ..."

"The CNIL (Comission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, National Comission of Computing and Liberties) has finally given his agreement to the SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, Company of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers) on spying P2P network to spot illegally transfered files but also to collect IP address of internet users..."

"So. This week it seems to be about privacy. Not so much me, but the fabulous workings of my government's leadership, who by the way, I did not vote for. [...] Finally, this week is the likely the week that the Canadian version of the DMCA, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, is to be tabled..."

"...While supporting HTML5 would be nice, the fact that MSIE7 won’t allow CSS rules to apply to any of the new HTML5 elements will significantly inhibit adoption of this standard."