This is excellent news. I have thought for years that it would be cool to make a locally hosted alternative to S3 that uses the exact same API. Seems like it would be a good solution for corporations that want to use S3-type tools but not store things directly "in the cloud". They could set up their own internal cloud and then use all the tools that work with S3.<p>The main thing that stopped me from doing anything on it was my fear that re-implementing the S3 API would have legal repercussions from Amazon.<p>I've been a loyal Amazonian for a while, but the more I hear about Mosso, the more I'm thinking it might be time for a sit down comparison.
Everyone wants to do their own open cloud APIs! First Sun ( <a href="http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/Home" rel="nofollow">http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/Home</a> ) and now Rackspace... who'll be next?<p>Standards are great, especially when there are plenty to choose from.