This post is from conversations with Matt Rocklin and others at the PANGEO developer meeting at NCAR Today, almost all of ’the cloud’ is run by ruthlessly competitive hypercapitalist large scale organizations. This is great & terrible. When writing open source applications that primarily run on the cloud, I try to make sure my users (primarily people deploying my software for their users) have the following freedoms: They can run the software on any cloud provider they choose to They can ...
