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Wiki As an Example to Demystify Cloud Computing
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| Cloud computing is supposed to save you
| money and make things easier for your
| business/organization. If a self-proclaimed
| cloud computing provider tries to sell you
| some expensive and fancy new technology that
| requires a lot of training on your
| employees, then be alerted that this may
| just be a hoax. Try partially replacing MS
| Word and Frontpage with wiki before buying
| any cloud solutions. Wiki is a minuscule,
| and yet most used form of cloud computing.
| It takes more cultural changes than monetary
| investment to introduce cloud computing into
| your organization/business. You can forget
| about cloud computing if your employees
| cannot get accustomed to this new culture of
| transparency, participation, and democracy.
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http://blog.ofset.org/ckhung/index.php?post/105d
Openness, transparency, and community: The future of commenting on the web
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| But should that be the default for the
| entire web? Is complete openness always the
| best way? Are there valid reasons for
| completely closing comments (as a policy,
| not for specific posts) on a news site like
| NPR? What about the heavy policing implied
| in this comment? At the very least,
| shouldn't it be more transparent--visible
| comment deletions, and reasons given to
| banned users?
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http://opensource.com/life/10/5/openness-transparency-and-community-future-commenting-web
What is "open source"? (And why should you care?)
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| Although the term gets used quite a lot in
| technology circles, there is often some
| confusion about exactly what it means,
| particularly when it comes to questions of
| whether or not software that is "open
| source" is necessarily "free." In an oft-
| repeated saying, open source is free as in
| "free speech" not free as in "free beer." In
| other words, it is meant to be open and
| accessible, but that doesn't necessarily
| come without a price-tag.
|
| In other words, open source is a practice
| that opens up the source (in the case of
| technology, this is typically the source
| code) so that others beyond the original
| creators can develop, expand, and modify the
| code. Unlike proprietary systems in which
| you are forbidden to "open the hood" to
| tinker with the moving parts, open source
| allows anyone to download the code and then
| alter it without restriction or fear of
| punishment.
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http://www.justmeans.com/What-is-open-source-why-should-you-care/15675.html
Without Free software in the nodes, there would be more tyranny.
Related:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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