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Canonical gave up on operating its Ubuntu One cloud storage service more than a year ago, but this week it released the system's file-syncing code under an open source AGPLv3 license.
Though Canonical is primarily known for its open source Ubuntu operating system, it also has some closed source products and services, including Ubuntu One.
Ubuntu's desktop "on its own will die"—Shuttleworth [said, explaining] why Canonical must expand. "Today, we're happy to be open sourcing the biggest piece of our Ubuntu One file syncing service," Canonical Director of Online Services Martin Albisetti wrote. "The code we're releasing is the server side of what desktop clients connected to when syncing local or remote changes. This is code where most of the innovation and hard work went throughout the years, where we faced most of the scaling challenges and the basis on which other components were built upon."
Canonical hopes the code will be "useful for developers to read through, fork into their own projects or pick out useful bits and pieces."
What project ideas would you use this code for?
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Friday August 14 2015, @02:01PM
How long before setting up a personal cloud is considered a normal thing that vendors would support?
How long before you get a static IP address and your ISP allows you to run public servers in your home net?
You're solving the wrong end of the problem. The networking aspect of this is trivial; my issue is that none of the phone vendors nor any of the app vendors are willing to give an option to use a personal cloud instead of a company-owned one. There is literally no option for this in the software configuration.
I suspect that, beyond the fact that there's not a standard for personal clouds to code against, many of them are monetizing the data, and they can't do that if you are storing it locally instead of dropping it in their laps. Kinda hurts their motivation level.
I also suspect that, regardless of how much of a privacy win it would be, the general consumer is going to look at the operating requirements for a personal cloud, respond "That looks hard!" and not bother. Either that, or they'll buy it pre-packaged and then leave the default admin password in place.
You know that saying about leading a horse to water? It's like I'm the horse, I'm thirsty, and the only places I'm being led want to fill my trough with opiate-laced beer. All the other horses there are stoned out of their minds, and looking at me like I'm crazy, because "thish shtuff ish the BESHT!"
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