“So Red Hat is going to sell hosted servers in EC2. With my
recent focus, this prompts an obvious question.“Given that EC2 is basically hosted Xen (a defacto open
standard), so that you can apparently fairly trivially move a VM
from your machine to EC2 to some other Xen-running server, and that
you can apparently access (both upload and download) your VMs
trivially via a robust API, does that make EC2 an open
service…?”
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