Comments on: Ubuntu One in Beta. Wait, WTF ?

By: Lachlan

Lachlan — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:21:51 +0000

why would you pay for this? it would be much easier to setup your own webserver on your ubuntu box and use that instead for shared storage…

By: Vadim

Vadim — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:59:06 +0000

Looks like the client is open-source and well documented: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/05/12/ubuntu-one/

Not that I care, but might give an edge to the zealots.

By: JJMacey

JJMacey — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:32:46 +0000

OMG!

Thanks Stefano.

By: FabriceV

FabriceV — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:39:23 +0000

10$ per month is higher that 99$ per year for Drobox… Which itself is not the cheapest… Hope so there are additionnal services…

By: Børge Roum

Børge Roum — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:39:16 +0000

It’s got a user on identi.ca too: http://identi.ca/ubuntuone

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:22:05 +0000

@Alan: Lol, self shameless promotion . Thanks !

By: Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:20:22 +0000

On the Ubuntu UK Podcast we just recorded an interview with two of the people behind Ubuntu One. We should be releasing this shortly. So get over to the site and subscribe now!

We are also giving away invites to Ubuntu One, details in the show.

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:17:48 +0000

Probably yes. Most of the software under ubuntu.com is proprietary (or not released), btw. I remember come irc ubuntu channel claiming of not using the http://paste.ubuntu.com/ because is “proprietary”.
Launchpad itself is proprietary, for now (but some parts have been released opensource, and Shuttleworth promised the full release in July 2009). I should note that in a recent IRC meeting to claim the following:

(11:45:39 AM) sabdfl: launchpad.net is a front end, all of that code is being released
(11:45:46 AM) sabdfl: there are a variety of other services and things that talk to it
(11:45:51 AM) sabdfl: and we’ll release some of those
(11:46:21 AM) sabdfl: in some cases, licensing of components may preclude release
(11:46:35 AM) sabdfl: in others, i may want to create competitive advantage for canonical
(11:47:02 AM) sabdfl: but everything that an upstream uses through the web will be released

By: Flimm

Flimm — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:16:20 +0000

I like everything about it except the name.
It makes it feel like a part of the Ubuntu project, when really it’s a part of Canonical. It doesn’t meet the Ubuntu promise or the Ubuntu philosophy, at least so far, and it hasn’t involved the community. Community driven projects built around Ubuntu have been refused the use of that trademark, so why should a proprietary project use it?

By: Hans

Hans — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:08:13 +0000

But is the server software proprietary: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubunet ?
Found it under related projects on the Launchpad link.