From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 15:01:01 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34343C48440 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:01:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm39-vm2.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm39-vm2.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.161]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A61C510DD for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:01:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1479481155; bh=IjE+z3ksp75vou1LeMHLQxJT50qObDTfyrUrwhFc1/4=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=KOoMLu2OULlXFdzsywM4MPKuHSwRm0aHAfN9Tt3WJzGfd2DBubMm6vCXrR5F3c+zW4D+xRYw2mm3H8fAVz5gH2JTzSG/DIz0ie7v9Fg/kg6A4CDyuUG0UdU61+OroovT+DxstmyxOz1YCfgRotmn8G9GO37qjv8h2W0jUIZ47+NyXqOH4Lb3P7zpwAJfzfKwieoA19dCQz9GynRgmYBEMd2kw2cn2fa1EdCwg6T/JvVmvErrH5DFb65TngVBvBCIZW3ayJj7nDA3iuoUH4GEJQIhjNsLaNTgc/mgjGnwLylIzu9YjMDhA+JDvYsjHjXLvmKR4S6FLcDMDraXu/ar+w== Received: from [212.82.98.124] by nm39.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Nov 2016 14:59:15 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.105] by tm17.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Nov 2016 14:59:15 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp142.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Nov 2016 14:59:15 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 772099.91810.bm@smtp142.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: ZfdSXWoVM1mIQ4ko92Ko1hAzX_DE6hj29caTTmUqUyLwHHr 0dpBOfWFfq1D73_TgNjvKYhL6Qjm9XtwSNbT7jUvFRcGFpZBe61FIRmELIP_ gUg.CSr55yCqvwClPogdiC2OxcWUhgX_tRo7L6VBeZKarVkO1lOeXDxUXlg. HGPxrV7DqkZyY9Wp61KGXnzpQbd9ZZKNQR6xY7iDlgHfHy0t85KeULJSqMTN 0_HvguXq2GxwWykFdYrWrDVdBy93ihIICOsOdZj0TOleV4qO5Jhfccd95z5F Olqfstst4x0d8S4EAXtBzBzu_sEMf_1Fm0xjnAYeQDB95Ki4kuNhTYBgvERD OssmQelxzOsowWDEflld_QhaNwsAinaDX3APaR5rXH8e4Z.oNZ730sylle.f iG02GYsNmdUnWbB.l0rFCWwk2fbpnvcMm7KZ7F5VjwTY7G1ui6U3Ed4jiy47 FXhnbldKt3.cp87ExjHksREVU3_d3BU_ujyF1YG_FFTM2bzI87fEwVRNByKa 4diSyLjyRZnqrAmCezOe_4J.Wt4LmIR0wCmfR6EIp2QYCqg0umgaVztkKDLS QjA-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:59:14 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? Message-ID: <20161118155914.6e7e8675@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20161118142547.9cd6703cd95036fa147d6918@sohara.org> References: <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <747a871c-4d34-7c06-0c04-4650f31bb6ce@FreeBSD.org> <20161118120740.cbaf9f31a85b2b19211f5d82@sohara.org> <20161118140210.35df746a@archlinux.localdomain> <20161118142547.9cd6703cd95036fa147d6918@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1-13-g860ccbc (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:01:01 -0000 On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:25:47 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >I won't be buying because I'd rather own the hardware that holds my >data but that's my personal preference. Your company perhaps isn't that huge. I could imagine that for huge companies, it's an advantage not to maintain their own server farms all over the world, but instead to pay for a company doing it for them. This is not my domain, I don't know how secure, or insecure this approach is, compared to maintaining internal server farms all over the world, but it's easy to imagine that regarding costs and maintenance huge companies could have reasons to pay for such a service bundle. However, while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure#Privacy sounds insecure, owning intern server farms, could suffer from the same issues. Regards, Ralf