Whose cloud is the open-sourciest… Who cares?
October 18, 2012
Grazed from The Register. Author: Matt Asay.
Open … and Shut Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the thought police are back. For years, the open source community was torn apart by fractious debates over what "open" meant and who was open enough. As we’ve moved beyond name calling to focus on getting work done, the same old debate has shifted to cloud computing, with a new crop of pundits and evangelists wrangling over who is the cloudiest of them all. Don’t we have anything better to do?
For some, the answer may be "No." Flexiant founder, Tony Lucas, for example, took to the stage at Structure this week and denounced "cloud washing" and demanded that it be stopped. This follows Appirio calling out cloud washing’s biggest offenders a year ago, and constant chatter on Twitter about the offense…
Maybe they’re right. Maybe it is a horrible crime against humanity to pretend at a "cloudiness" that one’s product doesn’t have.
But not content to pontificate on how serious competitors are about the cloud, some have turned the debate into a well-worn open source debate: just how open are open cloud vendors? OpenNebula’s founder argues that to be a truly open cloud, that cloud must be open source. He goes on to claim moral high ground, stating that OpenNebula its contributors are superior to those of other projects, as "they are not developers who have been hired by a vendor."…
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