No more OOo in UNR 10.04

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On 08/02/2010 09:11, Knapp wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 07/02/2010 18:30, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>     
>>> The obvious thing to do is have the OOo team stick OpenOffice in the
>>> cloud, too, and let us use it there.  I agree with what you say and
>>> with Canonical's position Re: monetizing Ubuntu somehow, but still
>>> don't trust google very far.
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>>
>>>       
>> That has already been announced and is being worked on. Will be
>> commercialized by Oracle (since they acquired us - Sun - my current
>> employer). It will be called Oracle Cloud Office (so far the plan is
>> that, today).
>>
>> Gilles
>>     
> I know it will not happen but people need to wake up. Companies have
> very bad records of keeping our private data private. They will give
> our data out at the drop of a hat to most government agencies like the
> CIA. They loose data. They get hacked, even Google has been. And they
> just love to sell and trade data by writing very loose user contracts
> that let them (naturally most users don't even read them). Do you
> really trust them enough to have all your firms office info on Google
> or some other companies computers,? How about that love letter you are
> writing? As long as I can, my private data will be on my private
> computer and often backed up and encrypted when need be.
>
> Do you think that Google would put all their companies data on an MS
> cloud computer and feel safe? I think not! Why should we?
>   

Because of the Patriot Act, which means that US government can decide to
access ANY data that is stored either on US soil, or in the
infrastructure owned by an American company, if there is suspicion of
terrorism and that they thing that the data may help solve that, many
people don't want to store their data on Google Apps.

Some of the schools here in France have strong ties with the defense
(defense industry or directly army)... and for that specific reason,
there is no way these school will store anything on Google Apps / Docs.

In France, we all remember when the US government illegally intercepted
bids by Airbus Industries for a large deal with an airline, and provided
the information to Boeing so that Boeing could out-bid Airbus, and
finally win the deal. These reasons led the French government to
legalize crypto in 1998 (I was part of the lobby group who drove that
action)... and these same reasons are now making entities in sensitive
markets stay away from US-owned/hosted storage...

Gilles.