How to build a free and open cloud

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Covers a vision called "Open Cloud Services" that extends open-source-style openness and freedom to cloud-hosted services, and proposes a funding mechanism named "cloud funding" intended to be simple, equitable and compatible with open-source values. Describes Unfurl, a DevOps tool for building reproducible, cloud-provider independent open cloud services, and explores Web3 and decentralization technologies—blockchain-based decentralized data, remote attestation, transparent reproducibility, and secure-computing cloud infrastructure—as the technical building blocks for such an open cloud.

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