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Making Clouds Open – and Secure
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| There is a paradox at the heart of the increasingly-trendy cloud computing.
| It is almost axiomatic that cloud computing services use free software for
| their infrastructure: the costs involved with proprietary software mean that
| the business model simply does not scale, unless Microsoft starts offering a
| special fixed rate for cloud computing setups (something that seems
| inevitable if it wants to stay in the game).
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| And yet despite this preponderance of open source running the backend, such
| cloud computing services do not generally make changes to that code
| available, because providing a service is not deemed to trigger the usual
| distribution clause of free software. This means that cloud computing
| providers are in danger of turning into free riders, taking advantage of free
| software without giving back in the traditional way.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1028
Recent:
Lost in the Clouds
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| Just as the open source LAMP stack created the current wave of Web 2.0
| companies, so free software will run the magic machinery keeping clouds
| aloft.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/lost-in-clouds.html
Down To Business: As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where Next Microsoft?
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| IBM's alignment with Google around Linux and Internet standards should have
| its longtime rival sweating sans Yahoo.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207601200
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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