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OMFG! I've been hoping for THIS exact technology. I wanted to set up dropbox like environments on all my machines so I can share unlimited data across my LAN this way every single machine acts as a back-up for every other machine on my entire lan set up when it comes to data I very much care for (My Documents, All my photos, etc.) Its not much, 20GB total? If that much. I can even have some machines mirror that to ex…
I'm curious what is in the Dropbox TOS that they dislike so much.
I'd like to use this for corporate use - but if that means data will be stored offsite somewhere where I don't have control over it - that's a problem. If I could deploy a server at work, and use similar features but be sure about what's happening - that would be great.
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Exactly, right now dropbox is 9.95/month for 2Gig and frankly overpriced. I would love to have that right now at 1.99/month. Maybe unreasonable... but I like competition.
How would you like 2G for free? Because that's actually the deal with Dropbox. No charge unless you want >2G.
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If Sparkleshare develops some momentum, you could easily see third-parties compete to offer Sparkleshare storage as a service, in a similar manner to how Dropbox works today.
Exactly, right now dropbox is 9.95/month for 2Gig and frankly overpriced. I would love to have that right now at 1.99/month. Maybe unreasonable... but I like competition.
I think it is sad that the "Open Source" Community (in quotes, because there is really no such thing and the term is inprecise) didn't come up with Dropbox on its own earlier. There was rsync, there was unison, but none of them worked as transparently and flawlessly as Dropbox does. And now — we copy the successful entrepreneurs. I somehow don't feel it is right — I would have loved for it to be the other way around.…