On 03/19/2013 05:29 AM, Michael Dorrington wrote: > 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.
Hi, We aren't discussing SaaS here, only IaaS. So probably you didn't really understand what all this was about. > 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. Exactly what freedom do you loose using a public cloud? As someone else (Charles?) stated, it's the same as running your website on a shared hosting server... You can still leave, and setup your service on another platform, or set it up in your garage if you wish... > 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> This page is about software as a service, which as absolutely nothing to do with what we are discussing. In other words: I do agree that we shouldn't encourage our users to use SaaS, but that's not what this is about. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
