The Cloud Computing Manifesto is a manifesto containing a “public declaration of principles and intentions” for cloud computing providers and vendors, annotated as “a call to action for the worldwide cloud community” and “dedicated belief that the cloud should be open”. It follows the earlier development of the Cloud Computing Bill of Rights which addresses similar issues from the users’ point of view.
The document was developed “by way of an open community consensus process” in response to a request by Microsoft that “any ‘manifesto’ should be created, from its inception, through an open mechanism like a Wiki, for public debate and comment, all available through a Creative Commons license”. Accordingly, it is hosted on a MediaWiki wiki and licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
The original, controversial version of the document called the Open Cloud Manifesto was sharply criticised by Microsoft who “spoke out vehemently against it” for being developed in secret by a “shadowy group of IT industry companies”, raising questions about conflicts of interest and resulting in extensive media coverage over the following days. A pre-announcement commits to
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