Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

Post by pekk » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:57 PM UTC

yaph wrote: post #103

jonknee wrote: post #64

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Almost everyone will have at least one completely up-to-date copy of their files. It's just a matter of signing up for a competing service and re-uploading. Four months seems like a long enough time to accomplish that.

It's not only about file storage. Ubuntu One offered a Web service to programmatically access the files. Imagine you've developed an application that interfaces with Ubuntu One and is mission critical for your business.

Post by pekk » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 6:02 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #57

gtaylor wrote: post #50

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Why does PulseAudio have anything to do with Ubuntu? AFAIK, there is no relation between the two, other than the fact that Ubuntu offers PulseAudio (along with almost every other distro).

I must admit that, more than once, an Ubuntu upgrade killed my audio and I had to go and fix it myself. It's really painful that a distro that wants to be number 1 is so broken at times.

Post by pekk » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

shanemhansen wrote: post #63

I find the second paragraph disappointing, but unsurprising. "Our strategic priority for Ubuntu is making the best converged operating system for phones, tablets, desktops and more." My hope is that the next design fad that out-fads the current "make my 30 inch high-res monitor look like a 3 inch screen" fad will be a step back towards actual usability. Convergence is a usability nightmare. I'd rant more, but hey thi…

Post by keithpeter » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 6:10 PM UTC

mariocesar wrote: post #81

keithpeter wrote: post #58

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Silver lining in the cloud (sorry could not resist) why don't you optimise for site deployment and then resell the service?

I'm thinking on that, not sure if it's worth it. Surely I will like to open source it, is just a 17Kb script that keeps listening and add a permission layer to create directories

Post by icebraining » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 6:17 PM UTC

Touche wrote: post #125

icebraining wrote: post #109

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Proud custodians? Yes, they wrote the format and controlled it, but it was no different that a proprietary protocol; it was just a necessary way of allowing people to send data around. .DOC and .PSD in particular have always been proprietary messes that they wanted you to treat as a black box.

I was thinking more about OpenDocument, EPub, PNG. Things we take for granted today. It seems that once efforts transferred to the web companies simply have no desire to cooperate on their protocols. Even though cloud syncing is simple enough that dozens of companies have reinvented it, the companies don't feel any obligation (as I personally feel they have) to open up these protocols.