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Re:Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon by benologist on Thursday July 14, 2016 @12:20PM (#12095112)
The nicest thing about Cloud9 is being open source you can install it on your own hardware so those VMs don't have to be remote.
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Re:Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon by nocman on Thursday July 14, 2016 @06:19PM (#12097628)
Unless something has changed since last year, it is not truly "open source" if you're going by the Open Source Initiative's definition of "open source".

Evidently there are a number of restrictions placed on the source code that prevent this from being the case. There was a Reddit discussion about it at the time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2vvs7i/cloud9_...

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Re:Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon by benologist on Friday July 15, 2016 @09:22AM (#12100727)
It is most definitely open source it is just not unconditional, maybe that will change now.

https://github.com/c9/core

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