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There are times when all we need to do is write. Really crank out the text. (For me, that's most of the day.) We don't need distractions and we don't need a bloated, expensive word processor with way too many features and way too slow a load time (I'm looking at you, Microsoft Word).
What we need is a minimalist, distraction-free word processor - and being the cheapskates that we are, we want it free.
Andrea DiMaio from the Gartner Blog Network asks an interesting question in a post titled Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source in Government?, and InfoWorld weighs in on the issue as well. One might as well not limit the question to government usage. Is cloud computing killing open source in general? DiMaio notes that government officials in London and Washington D.C. are finding that primary drivers for open source adoption--including cost savings and vendor independence--are going away, while free, cloud applications proliferate and grab headlines.
Do Google Docs and Zoho's applications spell doom for, say, the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications? I think cloud computing and open source are on a collision course to grow together, with neither killing the other.
