I think I agree with you, but I'll just clarify my naive thinking. Most synchronization tools (Owncloud, Synthing, Dropbox) perform similar functionality but t

I think I agree with you, but I'll just clarify my naive thinking. Most synchronization tools (Owncloud, Synthing, Dropbox) perform similar functionality but they require server-side code of some sort. So compared to these, in my mind, sdees is "severless" (but also sdees has a tiny fraction of the actual functionality of those awesome programs). Decentralized as defined by Rhoit Khare [1] is a system where multiple parties make individual decisions which may conflict. This, to me, is the scenario that occurs when two people edit the same document offline, but may want to merge later via a remote host. However, maybe a better term is "distributed" because in a lot of ways its similar to git, which is considered so [2], also then I can still use the same acronym :) [1] http://isr.uci.edu/projects/pace/decentralization.html http://isr.uci.edu/projects/pace/decentralization.html [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7212740/why-git-is-called-a-distributed-source-control-system http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7212740/why-git-is-called...