In a fantastic, insightful post, Tim O’Reilly lays the blueprint for the next decade of open source in the cloud. Money quote?

[I]f you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time.

This follows on Tim’s constant theme over the last few years: Data is the new Intel Inside. It’s a critical point given the nearly meaningless tie between open-source licensing, triggered upon distribution of software, and the web, which is premised on non-distribution of software. Increasingly the web is being turned into competing bunkers of data, as Tim writes:

… Source:The Open Road

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