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It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc. It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for stor
by bbarn 9y ago
It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc.
It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for storage.
- ragesh 9y agoWhy would non-proprietary preclude paying for storage?
- bbarn 9y agoBecause each of those is trying to profit from it, not just pay for the storage. Thus, branding, and thus, they make them private and proprietary. Is it right? No.
- gfodor 9y agoDon't be so sure -- IPFS provides a possible path. We will see if it works.
- sweeneyrod 9y agoIt's the protocol that's non-proprietary, not the service. IP is non-proprietary but you still have to pay for servers.
- vanderZwan 9y agoI think that GP's point was that a standard a la HTML or RSS should exist and be embraced by the OS. Something like Syncthing, I guess (just naming one of the first hits I got from searching, I haven't really kept up with what is being tried in this space). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncthing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncthing
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