This week in open source cloud news headlines ZDNet predicts winners and losers in cloud computing; Amazon needs to adjust its strategy to account for open source momentum; CloudStack is a contender; Rackspace's OpenStack distribution has new features; and Nebula offers the hardware component to OpenStack software.

How is the Linux community like a terrorist organization? This is a question graduate student, IT Manager and Systems Engineer Joel Burleson-Davis recently explored for his master’s thesis on sociological and philosophical systems, including Linux.

New individual Linux Foundation member Tony Atkinson’s technical expertise runs deep as a Linux systems administrator. But he confesses to be a bit of a luddite when it comes to smartphones and tablets.

CloudStack has released its first new code since becoming an Apache incubator project in April, according to top open source cloud headlines this week. Also new this week, Eucalyptus will soon have a new release to compare with its open source competitors; Microsoft needs an open cloud strategy; the open cloud is built on Linux; and Netflix releases an open source tool for monitoring AWS deployments.