[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“It’s not just individual consumer-users: businesses have a
vested interest in open data, as well. Cloud-based services are
hugely popular, and vow to protect customer data. But terms-of-use
policies must be closely examined to determine exactly what happens
to customer data if the terms of service are violated. What
recourse does the customer have? Are their appeal processes in
place for dispute? And–most critically–what happens to the
customer’s data if the service is cut off? Entire businesses could
collapse within days to get data access sorted out during a terms
of service dispute.“These are just some of the issues that the Open Cloud
Initiative was created to address. The driving event behind the OCI
was the introduction of the Open Cloud Principles by Google’s Sam
Johnston in 2009.”