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Funambol's CEO sees AGPL as essential for FOSS in cloud computing's future

12-09-2008 12:00 PM
"The future of software is in cloud computing," says Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol, a company that provides mobile services. And if free and open source software (FOSS) is going to survive in that emerging market, he says, then the community needs to adjust by promoting greater use of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), a license specifically crafted for software as a service.

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NAME

       glance-cache-prefetcher - Glance Cache Pre-fetcher

GLANCE IMAGE CACHE PRE-FETCHER
       Author glance@lists.launchpad.net

       Date   2012-01-03

       Copyright
	      OpenStack LLC

       Version
	      2012.1-dev

       Manual section
	      1

       Manual group
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   SYNOPSIS
	  glance-cache-prefetcher [options]

   DESCRIPTION
       This is meant to be run from the command line after queueing images to be pretched.

   OPTIONS
	  --version
		 show program's version number and exit

	  -h, --help
		 show this help message and exit

	  --config-file=PATH
		 Path  to a config file to use. Multiple config files can be specified, with values in later files taking precedence.  The default
		 files used are: []

	  -d, --debug
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	  --nodebug
		 Do not print debugging output

	  -v, --verbose
		 Print more verbose output

	  --noverbose
		 Do not print verbose output

	  --log-config=PATH
		 If this option is specified, the logging configuration file specified is used and overrides any other logging options	specified.
		 Please see the Python logging module documentation for details on logging configuration files.

	  --log-format=FORMAT
		 A logging.Formatter log message format string which may use any of the available logging.LogRecord attributes.  Default: none

	  --log-date-format=DATE_FORMAT
		 Format string for %(asctime)s in log records.	Default: none

	  --log-file=PATH
		 (Optional) Name of log file to output to. If not set, logging will go to stdout.

	  --log-dir=LOG_DIR
		 (Optional) The directory to keep log files in (will be prepended to --logfile)

	  --use-syslog
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	  --syslog-log-facility=SYSLOG_LOG_FACILITY
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   SEE ALSO
       o OpenStack Glance

   BUGS
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