How prism fosters free software

2 days ago I was participating at the google atmosphere event. Goal of the event is marketing for google's enterprise offers. No matter what the presentation was about, questions from the audience were always the same:

Do you offer a place for our data, where it is really save? 

The answer was, no surprise, always  the same too: " we always respect the law".

Being asked: which law? US law? EU law. Or even german law?, the answer was:

We respect all laws.

Funny, isn't it? No offence to google sales, that's the way they are briefed to deal with acceptance problems. Netherless this answer is, as we all know, absurd.
I personally thought that privacy issues would really not block enterprise adoption of cloud services. I thought, people will complain (like they do about facebook sometimes) but in the end they will accept and join. I have to admit I was wrong. They do not.

Is this the chance for european, national, regional clouds? As long they are hosted by non US companies it might be a little bit better. But this is academic as we dont see the real offers out there, which have the ability to compete with Google, Amazon. Microsoft.

The only chance, again, lies in Free Software. As soon as we have alternative software, we will have alternative solutions. Therefore it is a good idea for IT enterprises to invest in projects Open Stack, Cloud Stack and others. Let us gain knowledge and expertise, make them relieable, integrate the important features and robustness we need!

This will happen. Let it take years until it is really there and competitive (Yes, I know its there, but it's not competitive by now), but it will. In the end every single vendor stack will die. Prism speeds this up.