Re: [Owncloud] FLOSS alternative to Dropbox – GNOME + KDE collaboration?

Ted Gould <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.usability
Organization Canonical USA
Message-ID <1269369673.20840.12.camel@shi>
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:19 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 11:28 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:17 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 10:34 -0430, Dokuro wrote:
> > > > this seems like ubuntu one
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, Ubuntu One is not open source so it doesn't really help
> > > us at all.
> > 
> > The client and the protocol are entirely open source.  Just for
> > reference, nothing ships on the Ubuntu CD without being Open Source so
> > for it to ship with Ubuntu Desktop it is required to be Open.
> 
> A client and protocol to interact with a server that is *not* open
> source.
> 
> The server is the part we're discussing here.

Hmm, okay, sorry I was confused.  I guess it seems to me the server is a
moot point for the GNOME Usability list :)  But, that being said, if you
choose to implement the U1 protocol with your server, you get a GNOME
client for free.

		--Ted

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