Ubuntu One: interesting concept!

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Raseel Bhagat <raseelbhagat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> UbuntuOne as I understand it (more research to do) is not fully open,
>> so has no inherent superiority over Dropbox and doesn't do encryption
>> or other platforms.   I hope it does well for them as I'd like Ubuntu
>> to have more revenue streams - but I'm not sure I'll use it.
>
> Inherent superiorities :
> - Possibility of it being completely free.
Why would you think that? There has been zero indication of that AFAIK

> - Mashups with Cloud deployment softwares like Eucalyptus
OK, I suppose  - not something I can see valuable to me

> - Unlike Dropbox, Linux users will not be the last ones for the security
> updates.

I have no opinion there - Ubuntu's security releases are timely I grant you

> - Ubuntu community
What community?  They aren't open sourcing it!

Brian

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bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false