The cloud is defined as the elastic leasing of pooled computer resource over the Internet.
Many companies currently use the cloud to store their information and infrastructure instead of leaving it on the physical computer. As time passes, more companies have continuously started to store their information on the cloud. Predictions show that in the future, nearly all companies will use this to store information.
People trust open-source software - if they can see how it works and understand it, they can help improve it and build applications using it. If these protocols were not publicly available - then nobody would have implemented services using them - so nobody would be adopting it.
