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While unfortunate, I don't necessarily fault Amazon here. Amazon is a shopping website first, cloud computing platform second. I do find Joe Lieberman calling f
by darrenkopp 16y ago
While unfortunate, I don't necessarily fault Amazon here. Amazon is a shopping website first, cloud computing platform second. I do find Joe Lieberman calling for a boycott of an American company reprehensible though.
- phillian 16y agoAgreed 100%. Seems like Lieberman chose some low-hanging anti-anything-anit-America fruit to bolster his relevancy. It's pretty transparent.
- kylec 16y agoI find Joe Lieberman reprehensible
- steveklabnik 16y agoNot for long. They've said the cloud should start making more money than the shopping shortly...
- chopsueyar 16y agoI imagine the margins are better and material handling costs much less.
- felixmar 16y agoBut it does show the Achilles heel of cloud computing. Is it wise to depend on 3 American companies that have other interests to protect? The potential cloud computing oligopoly could be bad for freedom and openness on the net.
- benatkin 16y agoThe vagueness of the term "cloud" could help the cloud oligopolists. There could be hundreds of so-called clouds, with all but a few of them being brokers for the real cloud service providers. Then it would take a couple sentences to point out the situation. Not good. :(