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Important Announcement: Poll created for Qora's Potential Involvement in Microsoft Azure BaaS Program
Please be advised that a poll has been created by Skerberus in regard to Qora's involvement in Microsoft's Azure Blockchain As a Service Program (BaaS). This will most likely affect the value of your investment, so we'd highly encourage the whole community to participate! The outcome of this poll will decide whether we will apply to join the program or not.
Azure Poll (You can access the decentralized voting system inside your Qora client by going to the Voting tab): http://qora.co.in:9090/index/blockexplorer.html?poll=%20do%20you%20want%20qora%20to%20join%20microsoft%20azure%20baas%3F
In a nutshell, MS Azure BaaS platform is the cloud computing/deployment platform designed specifically for blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) purpose. By deploying the blockchain on Azure, it would be easier for potential developers and companies to interact and experiment with the blockchain, and create custom apps on top of the platform using existing MS technologies.
PROs:
1. By joining the program, we will be able to reach institutions and enterprises (banks, accounting firms.. etc) who otherwise will not be interested in learning and working with Qora. In other words, we will be able to reach audience outside of current Crypto community.
2. Microsoft will soon offer "Azure Blockchain Marketplace" with rigorous certification process (security vetting conducted by Microsoft). This is the kind of recognition we need.
3. Azure has tools that'll make building/deploying new Blockchain technologies much easier: check out https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devtest-lab/
4. Developers with no previous exposure to Crytocurrency and Blockchain Technologies will be able to interact/experiment with Qora utilizing existing Microsoft Technologies.
5. Big-name coins like Ethereum are already on it.
CONs:
1. Because of copyright and patent agreements that must be signed as part of the application process, NO Clones of qora or any derivative works based on Qora can be made. For those of you who wish to be part of CIYAM's new Blockchain, you will be disppointed.
2. A licensing contract that involves patent and distribution rights has to be signed before being accepted into the program.
3. The contract cannot be annulled once joined.
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The Poll will run for 2 weeks and close on April 15th. Feel free to add to my list of Pros and Cons as you see fit. Happy Voting!
Please be advised that a poll has been created by Skerberus in regard to Qora's involvement in Microsoft's Azure Blockchain As a Service Program (BaaS). This will most likely affect the value of your investment, so we'd highly encourage the whole community to participate! The outcome of this poll will decide whether we will apply to join the program or not.
Azure Poll (You can access the decentralized voting system inside your Qora client by going to the Voting tab): http://qora.co.in:9090/index/blockexplorer.html?poll=%20do%20you%20want%20qora%20to%20join%20microsoft%20azure%20baas%3F
In a nutshell, MS Azure BaaS platform is the cloud computing/deployment platform designed specifically for blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) purpose. By deploying the blockchain on Azure, it would be easier for potential developers and companies to interact and experiment with the blockchain, and create custom apps on top of the platform using existing MS technologies.
PROs:
1. By joining the program, we will be able to reach institutions and enterprises (banks, accounting firms.. etc) who otherwise will not be interested in learning and working with Qora. In other words, we will be able to reach audience outside of current Crypto community.
2. Microsoft will soon offer "Azure Blockchain Marketplace" with rigorous certification process (security vetting conducted by Microsoft). This is the kind of recognition we need.
3. Azure has tools that'll make building/deploying new Blockchain technologies much easier: check out https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devtest-lab/
4. Developers with no previous exposure to Crytocurrency and Blockchain Technologies will be able to interact/experiment with Qora utilizing existing Microsoft Technologies.
5. Big-name coins like Ethereum are already on it.
CONs:
1. Because of copyright and patent agreements that must be signed as part of the application process, NO Clones of qora or any derivative works based on Qora can be made. For those of you who wish to be part of CIYAM's new Blockchain, you will be disppointed.
2. A licensing contract that involves patent and distribution rights has to be signed before being accepted into the program.
3. The contract cannot be annulled once joined.
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The Poll will run for 2 weeks and close on April 15th. Feel free to add to my list of Pros and Cons as you see fit. Happy Voting!
GoldenKnight369, you are a good promoter for Qora! Thanks!
ONE thing additional: Qora could chain to azure any time later - but cannot leave azure once joined, if I understand right!
Maybe it's better to wait!?
Apparently NEM decided to join the Microsoft Azure program, but avoided signing a licensing contract that involves patent and distribution rights by paying to join Azure.
Could the Qora community also consider paying to join the Microsoft Azure program, and avoid losing the rights to the software like NEM?
How much would it cost to pay to to join?
It's another option we might consider and vote on.
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FYI
From the New Economy Movement blog (http://blog.nem.io/status-on-the-azure-project/):
Status on The Azure Project
29 Mar 2016
The tech team, rb2 and Patmst3r, worked hard in getting NEM into a docker for Azure. In case some of you who may not know Azure, it is a Microsoft cloud computing platform and infrastructure. Recently, some months ago, Microsoft opened up Azure for crypto projects to place their solutions there in the cloud repository so that testers are able to download and testbed these initiatives from one location.
We spent a considerable amount of time getting this done. Unfortunately, at the last stage of our submission we were shown the agreement. In the agreement, to put our solution up there, requires us to give away all our rights. This is not quite palatable.
This article has been pretty explicit:
http://bitcoinist.net/microsoft-bullies-open-source-is-the-blockchain-their-next-target/
The agreement which is publicly available for us to peruse by Microsoft, confirms it:
http://windowsazure.github.io/docs/Contribution%20License%20Agreement.pdf
Having given it due consideration and thoughts, we have decided that NEM should be independent. Instead, we are proposing to still put it on Azure as a docker but we pay for it. By paying for it, we are assuming to be a customer of MS instead. In doing so, we are free from losing our rights as well as still prove that we are able to put it on the Azure cloud and allow testers to work on our solution without NEM losing any rights at all.
In short, putting the NEM docker on Azure, in our opinion, is nothing more than making it simpler to install, vis-à-vis via Github. Putting it on Azure also extends our solution to making it available to people who are familiar with the MS service platform.
NEM does not believe that it should lose its rights to anyone, not in the very spirit of how crypto projects are founded upon.
On that basis, NEM would like to announce that it has no intention to get itself listed in Azure for free like the rest of the other projects, unless MS waives that agreement, for which if they are sincere, they should. Instead NEM will investigate a paid addition to Azure, achieving the same goal for a cost but keeping our full rights.