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Re:Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That... by zmanji on Monday April 02, 2012 @10:56AM (#3788386)
“Whenever I would talk in Washington about this cloud technology enabling data centers to run without people, this was interpreted as jobs going away,” Kemp says. “There was a serious political challenge to the project…and I was called before the NASA administrator — of the whole agency — to explain it.”

This is disturbing to say the least.

Re:Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That... by dpritchett on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:44AM (#3788632)
Anecdotal counterpoint: I worked much of my graduate assistantship in C.S. at Shelby Hall, named for the senator cited in the article as leading the charge against OpenStack.

http://www.bama.ua.edu/~chem/facilities/buildings/shelby.htm...

Re:Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That... by rbarooah on Monday April 02, 2012 @12:09PM (#3788751)
How is that a counterpoint?
Re:Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That... by dpritchett on Monday April 02, 2012 @02:04PM (#3789287)
My graduate STEM education and paid job was partially funded by the guy. He's not entirely out to stifle innovation.