I have always been a big fan of web (or cloud) applications, because they make it easy to switch freely between computers and between platforms. With web applications, your applications don’t tie you to any platform, leaving you free to choose whichever platform suits you best. Recently, though, a Linux.com article and a post on a Clipperz blog got me thinking about how open-source and the cloud go together, or don’t go together.
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