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I've read a bit of angst about cloud lock-in, a lot of weed pulling in the form of interoperability standards for the cloud, and a manifesto or two about 'Open Cloud'. And in between, I've seen lots of interesting new tools for cloud computing, and lots of narratives about how the tools, combined with the formalization of use cases, pave the way for open clouds. But what, exactly, does "Open Cloud" mean? And what role does open source play? Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, likes to say that open source and the cloud go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But does open source necessarily mean open cloud, and vice-versa?

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Open source will not make this 'cloud' concept that much better. I refuse to trust my data to the 'clouds'. I'll stick with my 'bulky' desktop and local stored personal files thank you very much.

Me too, and I'm sure most other people who understand what cloud is also agree.

There's no way they're getting my files on their servers, not even under the banner of FLOSS. No f'n way !

Cloud = Devil

Send it back from whence it came !