Re: [Owncloud] FLOSS alternative to Dropbox – GNOME + KDE collaboration?
Jan-Christoph Borchardt <[email protected]>
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On 23 March 2010 18:29, Máirín Duffy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 10:18 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: >> Have you talked to Canonical about open sourcing it? > > My assumption is that if they were in a position to open source it they > already would have (as they did for the client and protocol.) Seems there are currently no plans to open source the server side: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/375272 There might be a chance they open source it in the near future (like when it is »finished«), similar to Launchpad. Another part is the OS-agnosticism of Ubuntu One. For a data exchange system to work really well and to be really open, it has to be available on as many platforms as possible. At least end users will have a dual-boot system or non-Ubuntu machines. The benchmark for a good application (or rather the people behind it) is the compatibility to at least Linux, Mac OS and Windows. If KDE and GNOME achieve that with open software, it'll build trust and lower the barrier for adoption. My mother looked up the »criticism« paragraph of Wikipedia’s entry for Dropbox right after I told her about it. ;) _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability