Ubuntu One: interesting concept!

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Mon May 18 09:11:16 UTC 2009


Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> I left dropbox for this very reason. OS-agnostic would be allowing FTP
>>> access (which I have requested in their forums).
>> Not sure what FTP access has to do with being able to run on any
>> platform. Also, why support FTP when the more secure SSH/SFTP/SCP etc.
>> exists. I can understand their lack of interest in FTP.
>>
> 
> Alright, so provide SSH or any other type of secure access. But
> limiting access to their proprietary client is not OS-agnostic, and
> providing web assess is not a real alternative.

To me that is a different thing. If they provide their closed client for 
all platforms, so you can use their service on whatever platform you 
want, then for me that *is* OS-agnostic. To me that is what 
"OS-agnostic" means.

Requesting an open client is a completely different thing.

Chris




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