On -10/01/37 20:59, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:26:50PM +0100, Francesca Ciceri wrote: >> attached the draft of the upcoming press release about Debian on >> public clouds: it'd be great if you could review it. Particularly, >> I'd need two things: >> >> 1) the correct links for Amazon and Azure images >> 2) a quote from representatives of both Amazon and Azure. > > Thanks everyone for the feedback given in this thread. Based on it, I've > prepared a new draft, which I hope could be consensual. > > If you have further comments, please consider joining patches to them, so that > the feedback loop could be quicker (i.e. you wouldn't have to wait 2 days for > me to come up with an alternative proposal that addresses your comments :-)). > > Note that there are also very technical points that anyone on this list could > help with, e.g. the most appropriate image links.
I'm not sure if this has been frozen yet, as was originally planned, but I still want to make some comments on Debian and cloud computing. I would very much like the original sentiment of "...we recommend running your own cloud..." be put back into the final press release. And I would hope that to be the Debian official position, that of running a Free Software solution is recommended over a SaaS solution. And I dispute the statement about freedom in: "When choosing Debian as a guest OS in the cloud setting, Debian will offer you the same guarantees of freedom, stability, and community support than everywhere." as in depends on if it is a private Free Software cloud, a private non-Free Software cloud or a public cloud. A private Free Software cloud does offer the same freedom but a private non-Free Software cloud, and even worse, a public cloud, does not. For the reasoning behind these comments please see: "Who does that server really serve?" <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html> Regards, Mike. -- FSF member #9429 http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429 http://www.fsf.org/about "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
