On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Shane Fagan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 18:01 +0530, shirish wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is going to be perhaps a controversial (or not) request. So > > please take couple of deep breaths, have your favorite cup of coffee, > > put the AC or whatever puts you at ease. My use-case is desktop users > > rather than anybody else. > > > > Existing scenario :- > > > > 1. As of right now, the only competitor per-se is usage of google > > gears rather than anything else. http://tools.google.com/gears/ and of > > localstorage http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/localstorage/ which are > > of browser-based solutions. (but then the data remains on PC as well > > as the cloud and I/O as in bandwidth is saved.) > Dropbox is the main competitor and is already used by many Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X users. (It has even appeared on Planet GNOME several times.) > > > > 2. The other kind of solution which exists are something like > > http://docs.google.com/ and www.zoho.com which are again manual upload > > file-sharing and backup online solutions. > > > > 3. The other competitor is of course windows skydrive or whatever its > > called (which I haven't really checked out). > > > > 4. The use-case is specifically with desktop users its much more > > easier to get them acquainted with the windows version of FOSS > > applications, get their usage of these applications happening and then > > slowly migrate them towards GNU/Linux. If they are already aware and > > using FOSS applications then the migration is relatively pain-free. > > (or atleast that has been my humble experience so far.) > > > > 5. It would be great if ubuntuone would be open for FOSS applications > > file backup, syncing etc. on the windows platform too . It should give > > bigger visibility to Ubuntu in MS-Windows world which doesn't know any > > other service provider other than MS and Google. > > > > I do have some more ideas but please lemme know what you think ? > > Feedback and constructive criticism encouraged. > You can access ubuntuone via the browser. I personally would object to > porting ubuntuone's client to windows because its something special for > ubuntu and using it on windows would reduce its specialness IMO. Plus I > dont think canonical would like their bandwidth taken up by windows > machines. > I asked about this and was told by a Canonical employee that ports to other platforms would be welcome but not officially supported. Natan
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