Ubuntu One: interesting concept!

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Raseel Bhagat <raseelbhagat at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> UbuntuOne as I understand it (more research to do) is not fully open,
> >> so has no inherent superiority over Dropbox and doesn't do encryption
> >> or other platforms.   I hope it does well for them as I'd like Ubuntu
> >> to have more revenue streams - but I'm not sure I'll use it.
> >
> > Inherent superiorities :
> > - Possibility of it being completely free.
> Why would you think that? There has been zero indication of that AFAIK
>

The only reason for me to HOPE that it will be free is that it is a Ubuntu
project and hence chances of it being free are more.



>
> > - Mashups with Cloud deployment softwares like Eucalyptus
> OK, I suppose  - not something I can see valuable to me


Yes. Maybe not now. But imagine a few years down the line where using Ubuntu
One and Eucalyptus you will host your own cloud.


>
>
> > - Unlike Dropbox, Linux users will not be the last ones for the security
> > updates.
>
> I have no opinion there - Ubuntu's security releases are timely I grant you


It's not about Ubuntu security updates. It's about updates from the upstream
Dropbox for linux.
Since Dropbox is not a native linux application, it will updated the linux
version in the end. This is usually the case for other non-native linux
projects


>
>
> > - Ubuntu community
> What community?  They aren't open sourcing it!
>

The Ubuntu community helps in a lot of ways other than just coding. Example,
deployment in various scenarios on various devices, troubleshooting with the
binary, etc., bug triaging and upstream notification, etc.


Thanks,
Raseel.
http://raseel.in
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