Profits considered immoral by open source community?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 13, 2012

[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett
for this link. ]

“The comment was made by Eucalyptus CEO M?rten Mickos to New
York Times blogger Quentin Hardy, in a Bits article on the open
source ecosystem that has grown up around Amazon Web Services (AWS)
that was posted last Friday.

“Hardy did a good job summarizing the various players in the
sector: Open Nebular; OpenStack, Cloud.com, and the aforementioned
Eucalyptus, and their overall role with respect to AWS. He zeroed
in on Eucalyptus, which was a good choice, too–even though
OpenStack and Cloud.com have a lot of PR mojo going right now,
there’s no getting around the fact Eucalyptus has garnered a lot of
commercial success for itself. Eucalyptus, as Hardy pointed out, is
also more integrated with AWS infrastructure. “


Complete Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

Linux Today Logo

LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2026 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.