<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Rashkae <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu@tigershaunt.com">ubuntu@tigershaunt.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">H.S. wrote:<br>
> Just saw this:<br>
> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/hands-on-canonical-aims-for-the-cloud-with-new-ubuntu-one.ars" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/hands-on-canonical-aims-for-the-cloud-with-new-ubuntu-one.ars</a><br>
><br>
> Looks very interesting. I think a large set of users will love this<br>
> feature who want to keep a set of files in sync across various machines.<br>
> Plus it is bringing collaboration in a big way to Ubuntu and Linux!<br>
<br>
</div>Oh yes,, I'm drooling already, but the real question, will the server<br>
end be available as free software as well, or just the client? (and<br>
whatever happened to the Novell file synchronization they were working<br>
on for Suse? I think that was GPL, but AFAIK, never finished and never<br>
ported to other distros)<br>
<div></div></blockquote><div><br>Good point.<br><br>It will be really game-changing if it is completely open.<br><br>It would enabled people to deploy their own online backup service.<br><br>Maybe a mashup with Eucalyptus can then be used for "Personalised Clouds" ..... Nice, huh ?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Raseel.<br><a href="http://raseel.in">http://raseel.in</a><br></div></div><br>