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Microsoft criticizes drafting of secret 'Cloud Manifesto'

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
IT World; By Elizabeth Montalbano
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Microsoft is criticizing the drafting of what it has characterized as a secret "Cloud Manifesto" that sets guidelines for interoperability among cloud-computing networks. In a blog posting attributed to Steven Martin, Microsoft spilled the beans on a document it said has been drafted privately and that it was asked to sign without revisions. "Very recently we were privately shown a copy of the document, warned that it was a secret, and told that it must be signed 'as is,' without modifications or additional input," according to the post.

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Comments (4)

I cry a river. Victimized all the time are the poor dears from Redmond.
TC, Come on, those guys in Redmond are really hurting. Send them a donation, you know, just like how that evil Open Source is funded?
Send a donation to extortionists? That'd be like handing a dime bag to a crack dealer.
a wiki, a CreativeCommons license... my oh my aren't they hip over in Redmond?

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