If you're fortunate enough to live near New York City, you can catch Eben Moglen at the NY Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-NY) on Friday, talking about "Freedom in the Cloud." Specifically, Moglen will be talking about the implications of "cloud computing" on software freedom, privacy, and security. Cloud computing does pose quite a few challenges for software freedom.
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Cloud is Just Another Word for "Sucker"
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As much as we warn about privacy, security, and reliability problems in cloud computing, it's coming and we can't stop it. So do we join the cloud party? Heck no.
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11 Top Open-source Resources for Cloud Computing
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The following are 11 top open-source cloud applications, services, educational resources, support options, general items of interest, and more.
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Red Hat wants to standardise clouds
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Red Hat's Deltacloud project is developing a open source standardised API for addressing different cloud architectures in a uniform way. Cloud service users can use the Deltacloud API to access Amazon's EC2 as well as private clouds that are based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEL-V); drivers for private VMware ESX clouds and the cloud services offered by Rackspace are to follow.
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Ubuntu Servers Gaining Acceptance
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The Ubuntu Server operating system has not yet become as widely used as the Ubuntu desktop edition, but it is slowly getting there.
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The cost of monopoly in the cloud
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korean computer are self destroying: is that the cost of monopoly in the #cloud?
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Google OS: Bootloader to the Cloud
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I see a big threat in what Google is aiming here, which is complete dependence on the cloud. Google plans to release most of the so called Chrome OS as free software. Yes, but we should also look at what this OS is reduced to.
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Linux's position in cloud computing efforts
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Clouds are such big Linux news these days that, in the physical world, it would be raining by now. Or at least heavily overcast.
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Open Source and the Cloud: Pay Dirt or Parasite?
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Does using open source software pay off in a total cost sense when compared to commercial offerings today? Is it worth the usually lower cost, or will an enterprise that casts its lot with FOSS be trapped in a high-risk situation where they can't get support and innovation?
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Is cloud computing a threat to open source?
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Why the demise of proprietary software is creating a vacuum which is about to be filled... and we may not like it.
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Open Source cloud w/ full web IDE, challenges Windows Azure
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GroundOS.org has announced a new open source cloud web application server. They claim that "cloud computing is little more than a marketing buzzword, used to dress up the cold ugly business model of renting software...
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GPL's cloudy future
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One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It’s a learned efficiency, I suppose. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking about cloud computing.
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Microsoft worried by Linux cloud
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Microsoft has opposed an industry-wide plan to promote interoperability in cloud computing claiming, officially it’s because the firm believes the plan is unnecessarily secretive. But there are allegations Microsoft feels threatened by the plan boosting Linux-based systems.
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AGPLMail - A new horizon?
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The AGPLMail is said to be a AGPL'd webmail application which competes with(hopefully) and somewhat mimic Gmail. So, it is, in a way, 'AGPLMail is not Gmail' sort of thing.
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AGPLMail 0.0.3 Released
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Version 0.0.3 has now been released, another snapshot of semi-stable code. The biggest change this time, is the migration to YUI (Yahoo User Interface) AJAX widgets.
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