On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Johannes Schmid
<jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
Hi!
> Sharing files and preferences is the goal of UbunuOne, which just went
> live yesterday. [1] UbuntuOne is currently just a Dropbox replacement,
> but there are plans to integrate it with GNOME apps and to sync
> preferences and app-specific data. (Disclaimer: The UbuntuOne
> server-side software is currently proprietary.)
Will it become open-source? And when? Because otherwise I would not propose to integrate it into the Desktop though I am using Ubuntu.
Agreed.
Right now, all of the client side software is open source and the server-side stuff is proprietary. The person I spoke with from Canonical implied that there's a _chance_ that the code will be released in the future, but that they don't currently plan on releasing it.
The protocol is open, so I suppose it's possible to write an alternative server implementation. If someone is going to write online-synchronization code anyway, it makes sense to reuse Canonical's protocol.
