The problem with the “cloud model”
During the panel that I participated in at OSBC the panelists were asked what they thought of the “Google model” of computing. I was rather negative about this. Actually, according to Yahoo News, I said “The Google model really scares me”. Yep, that sounds about right. I talked about this before. Where’s my data and Google’s subpoena is a sign of some of the downside of their server centric approach… . So consider this part three of an ongoing series…
Here’s a new example why the cloud model is flawed - and just for kicks, it’s not picking on Google but on Adobe this time. Adobe recently released their Web version of Photoshop Express. If you ignore the cute “the lawyers make us do this” tool-tips and actually click through the terms of use you’ll find language like this:
Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
So when you use their web software you grant Adobe worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and sublicensable rights to use, reproduce, modify(!), publish(!) and derive revenue(!) from your images.
Wow. One more reason why I don’t like these “cloud services”.
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