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Moving Towards A Self-Hosted Cloud
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| The future I want to see us move towards is the idea of open source and
| self-hosted services supported by third-parties.
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| Google is only one example, but it’s the most severe one because of the huge
| amounts of critical information people entrust it with. There’s a lot
| discussion going on talking about reasons why people shouldn’t be handing
| companies like Google all of this information. These discussions include
| ideas like no matter how many beneficial services are provided to make our
| lives easier, the fact that if it is all coming from a for-profit company,
| we’ll never know what their long-term plans might, or when their intentions
| could change, or even what the possibility is that we could all be left
| up-the-creek without access to our information at all! As well, other
| services whose value is driven by our information are also being scrutinized
| by people raising their voices who want more and more control over their
| information, namely Twitter.
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http://openmode.ca/2008/09/moving-towards-a-self-hosted-cloud/
We Underestimate The Benefits And Overestimate The Dangers Of Openness
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| Closed systems tend to look more elegant at first -- and often they are much
| more elegant at first. But open systems adapt, change and grow at a much
| faster rate, and almost always overtake closed systems, over time. And, once
| they overtake the closed systems, almost nothing will allow them to go back.
| Even if it were possible to turn an open system like the web into a closed
| system, openness would almost surely sneak out again, via a new method by
| folks who recognized how dumb it was to close off that open system.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081224/1056543219.shtml
Recent:
Is Cloud Computing Vaporware?
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| Cloud computing is being over-hyped, and enterprises should be wary after
| high-profile outages at providers such as Amazon cloud services, said analyst
| firm Ovum.
|
| A raft of IT-as-a-service offerings have emerged in recent years, including
| Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service
| (S3) along with Google Apps offering and the Salesforce platform-as-a-service
| product.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155851/cloud_vaporware.html?tk=rss_news
Affero GPL is freedom to the web
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| There is no question in my mind that freedom must be fought for and defended
| with all means available. We have copyright laws and we use it. The GNU
| system and copyleft is mainstream on personal computers and servers. Now,
| with the Affero GPL it’s time to take freedom to the web.
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http://maffulli.net/2008/12/18/affero-gpl-is-freedom-to-the-web/
Funambol's CEO sees AGPL as essential for FOSS in cloud computing's future
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| "The future of software is in cloud computing," says Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO
| of Funambol, a company that provides mobile services. And if free and open
| source software (FOSS) is going to survive in that emerging market, he says,
| then the community needs to adjust by promoting greater use of the GNU Affero
| General Public License (AGPL), a license specifically crafted for software as
| a service.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/154696
Do we need GPLv3?
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| Regardless of opinion on the merits of the new GPL, the fact is it's
| here--and likely here to stay.
|
| In essence, copyleft is a complete reversal of traditional copyright values
| where the law sees software as a literary work under the Copyright, Designs
| and Patents Act 1988.
|
| [...]
|
|
| The result is a new version of the license that is much clearer in its scope
| and application. It also takes greater account of software patents. To
| prevent software owners using patents to impose additional terms on users,
| the license includes the use of any patents owned by copyright holders that
| fall within the scope of the software. The termination provisions are also
| made clearer and are now automatic instead of requiring a notice from a
| copyright holder.
|
| [...]
|
| Conversion from GPL version 2 to version 3 is increasing as existing open
| source applications seek to benefit from the improved certainty afforded by
| the new terms. That's not to say that version 2 is unenforceable, it will
| continue to exist and be used by those who prefer it, but version 2 and
| version 3 are incompatible. Thus a decision needs to be made by those
| organizations 'going open' as to how they would prefer their software to be
| made available--and soon.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/software/0,39044822,62047569,00.htm
GPLv3/AGPLv3 Adoption: If It Happened Too Fast, I'd Be Worried
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| Since the release of GPLv3, technology pundits have been opining about how
| adoption is unlikely, usually citing Linux's still-GPLv2 status as (often
| their only) example. Even though I'm a pro-GPLv3 (and, specifically,
| pro-AGPLv3) advocate, I have never been troubled by slow adoption, as long as
| it remained on a linear upswing from release day onward (which it has).
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2008/nov/13/gplv3-agplv3-adoption/
AGPLv3 Keeps Open Source Vibrant in Age of SaaS
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| For all practical purposes, the AGPLv3 is a key advance for everyone involved
| in open source, regardless of if you are a software developer, Internet end
| user or enterprise end user. The AGPLv3 closes the ASP loophole and keeps the
| freedom of open source software alive, in the age of SaaS and hosted
| applications.
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https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/agplv3-keeps-open-source-vibrant-age-saas
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