Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 15, 2008 09:01 AM
This is a very interesting article and well written. Thanks.
I'd like to just add that, of course, the GPL and other FOSS licences are very much alive and well within the cloud. I was looking in Amazon's EC2 yesterday funnily enough and it is very hard to find any AMIs (Virtual Machine Instance to you and me) that aren't based on sound and good FOSS platforms, Debian, Ubnutu etc... I also read a great "proof-of-concept" piece recently about running Asterisk in the Cloud too.
So, although I do agree with almost everything in the main article, there wouldn't be the possibility to actually build out and run Clouds without FOSS. Imagine how much (and how slow and unreliable) Amazon's EC2 would be if was based on Redmond code....
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 81.178.65.1] on July 15, 2008 09:01 AMI'd like to just add that, of course, the GPL and other FOSS licences are very much alive and well within the cloud. I was looking in Amazon's EC2 yesterday funnily enough and it is very hard to find any AMIs (Virtual Machine Instance to you and me) that aren't based on sound and good FOSS platforms, Debian, Ubnutu etc... I also read a great "proof-of-concept" piece recently about running Asterisk in the Cloud too.
So, although I do agree with almost everything in the main article, there wouldn't be the possibility to actually build out and run Clouds without FOSS. Imagine how much (and how slow and unreliable) Amazon's EC2 would be if was based on Redmond code....
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