On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, JoeHill wrote:

I've been reading articles like this for years now, in various forms

Yeah this idea of remote servers under someone elses control has been around for quite a long time.

proclaiming that the home desktop PC is a flawed and obsolete model, and that all of our software should be run from secure servers instead.

I see two seperate issues here... Personally I think the desktop PC is a flawed idea overall (from a system management point of view) but giving up control of data to a remote entity is even worse. The middle ground is a thinclient solution. I can giveup the desktop PC (replacing it with a "dumb" display device) but still keep the central server under the control of the owners of the data. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml