Richard Stallman (rms), the maharaji of free software, doesn’t profess much love for cloud computing. He’s right of course about some of the hype surrounding cloud computing. Vendors have glommed onto the term like flies on honey. But there is tangible inertia behind many cloud computing initiatives. And I’ve got to wonder if traditionalists like Stallman feel a bit threatened. One of his chief concerns is losing control of your data. The thinking is that it is easier to put your data into the cloud than it is to pull that data out. It is certainly easier to retrieve your data from a local hard drive than from cloud storage.