Open source has never sat comfortably in the cloud. It’s true open source has never been stronger (despite some evidence that most open source projects are an unmaintained security wasteland), but there’s a reason new license models keep cropping up, and it’s not corporate greed. Rather, it’s because the fundamental freedoms of open source and the rightly revered Open Source Definition (OSD) never got updated to truly answer the differences cloud computing imposed (something I was writing about back in 2009).
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