Along with the point you've just made, I thought about this after my last post, related to the difference between a tablet and the cloud. If a company changes t

Along with the point you've just made, I thought about this after my last post, related to the difference between a tablet and the cloud. If a company changes the Linux kernel or an open-source application and includes it in their mobile device, they have to release the source on demand. As intended. (And there have been a number of high-profile cases in which companies tried to avoid releasing source.) But if they change the Linux kernel or an open-source server utility and put it on their cloud server, they don't. An unintended outcome, and one that makes the cloud different than what came before it. So I concede that the cloud is different, and it does affect the idea of open-source. The line is drawn if and when a client machine downloads an open-source app from the cloud. If that never happens, then there's no requirement to release source.