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I don't want to sound negative, but something about this makes me feel weird. It's a very polished presentation and looks very well done at first sight. The lic

I don't want to sound negative, but something about this makes me feel weird. It's a very polished presentation and looks very well done at first sight. The license is GPL3, which makes me think they are probably planning to add a commercial license on top of that. This is all fine, but I am very skeptical as to whether this will be maintained for a long time as a real open source project. I've had multiple occasions where I regretted deeply going all in with all my data on a new product making bold promises. Also, maybe it's because I'm getting old, but I somehow don't think that having all my data available everywhere at any time is as big a deal as I previously thought.

weikju 3y ago
> This is all fine, but I am very skeptical as to whether this will be maintained for a long time as a real open source project. They got VC funding last year so your worry is a very real one https://www.spacedrive.com/blog/spacedrive-funding-announcement https://www.spacedrive.com/blog/spacedrive-funding-announcem...
nerdjon 3y ago
The list of investors is almost twice as long as the list of engineers. So the concern is valid. I am honestly struggling to see what exactly this gets me above just mounting the drive? So I can search and see what files I can access when I am not connected seems to be the biggest thing but… what value is seeing a file exists if you can’t get it?
- PurpleRamen 3y ago
  Often, just knowing the filename or that you have the file available somewhere, is enough. I think this is something catering mainly to data hoarder and especially the more shady ones who download not so legal stuff from everywhere. Just being able to know whether you already have something, can be useful.
- filchermcurr 3y ago
  I see at least two advantages: speed and a consistent cross-platform interface. Unless you have a 10 gigabit LAN, browsing large media files over a home network is slooooow. Having everything indexed allows you to do instantaneous searches of all of your files (with search tools / filters that may not exist in your native file explorer or would otherwise be extremely slow (Finder)), show instant previews, detect duplicates among all of your files from all of your storage locations, have a single authority for organizational systems like tags, etc. Offline is useful when you have a lot of external drives with contents scattered across them. You search for the file you want, it tells you what drive its on, you plug that drive in. This probably won't be extraordinarily useful to people who don't have a lot of network and/or detached drives or people who are meticulously organized and locked into a preferred solution already. But messy people with lots of data, devices, drives, and OSes? Pretty handy.
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mdaniel 3y ago
AGPLv3 (switched in 2022 https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/commit/8e5c71dea4a4189adcf3867b6613ce678441ab5a https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/commit/8e5c71dea... ) and FWIW I don't see any mention of CLA or other license assignment, so I don't believe they can currently rug pull containing contributed changes since they don't own the license for them: https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/blob/main/CONTRI...

weikju 3y ago

> This is all fine, but I am very skeptical as to whether this will be maintained for a long time as a real open source project. They got VC funding last year so your worry is a very real one https://www.spacedrive.com/blog/spacedrive-funding-announcement https://www.spacedrive.com/blog/spacedrive-funding-announcem...

nerdjon 3y ago

The list of investors is almost twice as long as the list of engineers. So the concern is valid. I am honestly struggling to see what exactly this gets me above just mounting the drive? So I can search and see what files I can access when I am not connected seems to be the biggest thing but… what value is seeing a file exists if you can’t get it?

PurpleRamen 3y ago
Often, just knowing the filename or that you have the file available somewhere, is enough. I think this is something catering mainly to data hoarder and especially the more shady ones who download not so legal stuff from everywhere. Just being able to know whether you already have something, can be useful.
filchermcurr 3y ago
I see at least two advantages: speed and a consistent cross-platform interface. Unless you have a 10 gigabit LAN, browsing large media files over a home network is slooooow. Having everything indexed allows you to do instantaneous searches of all of your files (with search tools / filters that may not exist in your native file explorer or would otherwise be extremely slow (Finder)), show instant previews, detect duplicates among all of your files from all of your storage locations, have a single authority for organizational systems like tags, etc. Offline is useful when you have a lot of external drives with contents scattered across them. You search for the file you want, it tells you what drive its on, you plug that drive in. This probably won't be extraordinarily useful to people who don't have a lot of network and/or detached drives or people who are meticulously organized and locked into a preferred solution already. But messy people with lots of data, devices, drives, and OSes? Pretty handy.

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mdaniel 3y ago

AGPLv3 (switched in 2022 https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/commit/8e5c71dea4a4189adcf3867b6613ce678441ab5a https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/commit/8e5c71dea... ) and FWIW I don't see any mention of CLA or other license assignment, so I don't believe they can currently rug pull containing contributed changes since they don't own the license for them: https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/blob/main/CONTRI...