Cloud Computing - A Storm Just Started

[kiridude]

I wonder, is a "truly open cloud" possible this day in age with all these giant corporations desperately vying for control...?

[Arkenzor]

That's a domain where the usual guarantees offered by commercial open source actors are not sufficient in my opinion. They might release the source code for their client software (probably won't do it for server-side software though) and use open communication formats, but man they've still got all my data on their hard drives! And I'm still expected to sign outrageous service agreements where I relegate my right do what I want with my own data.

I think a successful "open" cloud computing solution would have to be mostly non-commercial.