On 5 Mar 2009, at 14:31, Noah Slater wrote:
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
On 5 Mar 2009, at 09:31, Jason Smith wrote:
What are the chances that the free software movers and shakers could
successfully lobby CouchDB to be included in the Freedesktop.org
system?
"A couch on every desktop" sounds like a worthy cause and I think it
makes sense to spend time on this :)
Come on, let's not make the common mistake of getting distracted
with technology
for technology's sake. I would like to see a detailed use case for
having a
standard CouchDB database available. What actual problem would this
solve?
Imagine an Address Book application that doesn't suck (at syncing with
other
devices (mobiles, PDAs) and machines). In fact, imagine a desktop
environment
where all user-data can be syndicated to different endpoints without
much hassle.
Boy would I like to see browser history syncing without going through
"The Cloud".
Yes, some solutions to these problems exist, but a generic, cross
platform
abstraction is missing and CouchDB could be decent technological
foundation.
Cheers
Jan
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