Re: GNOME Shell and Online Desktop

[Ross Smith <myxiplx googlemail com>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:18 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.

Who cares?

Seriously, this is a 3rd party service.  What I would propose is that
the gnome-shell guys create a common framework that services like this
can plug into to provide desktop, application & document
synchronization.

That way:
- all the gnome-shell stuff is open source
- it opens up the market for providing this kind of service to
external competition (although it sounds like UbuntuOne may have an
early advantage).
- it lays the framework for open source developers to write their own
services, so you could potentially run things like this on your own
server, and have a full open source platform in the long run

I'm quite happy with online services being closed source provided they
are using a standard framework so it's possible to switch from one to
another.


>
> Regards,
> Johannes
>
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