I guess I don't see how cloud computing is materially different from open source in so much as we see the sharing of resources and also now increased availability, no need to buy so much hardware at the outset. But it seems more a case of convenience.
So what does that have to do with AGI? I can see the advantage that if you wanted your executable code to remain hidden in a cloud so nobody can get a hold of it to decompile and figure it out, however. On 10/29/08, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Bob Mottram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Beware of putting too much stuff into the cloud. Especially in the >> current economic climate clouds could disappear without notice (i.e. >> unrecoverable data loss). Also, depending upon terms and conditions >> any data which you put into the cloud may not legally be owned by you, >> even if you created it. >> > > For private commercial clouds this is true. But imagine a public > self-healing cloud where it is somewhat self-regulated and self-organized. > Though commercial clouds could have some sort of inter-cloud virtual > backbone that they subscribe to. So Company A goes bankrupt but it's cloud > is offloaded into the backbone and absorbed by another cloud. Micro payments > migrate with the cloud. Ya right like that could ever happen. > > John > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
