Right, but I can run my own git "server" with no problem. That's why I use that analogy. Plenty of people run their own BitTorrent trackers too. In my mind,

Right, but I can run my own git "server" with no problem. That's why I use that analogy. Plenty of people run their own BitTorrent trackers too. In my mind, "cloud" open source means: you need a team of experts to run it. git and BitTorrent are different -- they are designed for you to run it yourself. Also, the model is to "sync" and then "read/write", as with git (and BitTorrent). Not just read/write remotely. So maybe I should call it a "replicated file system" rather than a distributed one. I guess the main difference with git is that it should handle large binaries / many files, you shouldn't have to clone the entire repo, and maybe users/permissions.