> and to a much lesser extent, the Linux crowd The Linux crowd needs to write the tool, release it under a suitable licence, and only then can OS vendors adopt

> and to a much lesser extent, the Linux crowd The Linux crowd needs to write the tool, release it under a suitable licence, and only then can OS vendors adopt it. Note that Canonical did it with Ubuntu One years ago (I'm not sure if the server side is open though). It's a Dropbox-alike, but doesn't address the situations the original article described. Joey Hess is doing it with git-annex. I think it does describe the situations the original article described. If it proves itself in the general case (rather than just as a specialist tool, which I think it already has), then I expect that Linux distributions will eventually bring it to the forefront. So the OS is evolving. But in the Free Software world, you can't demand that the vendors do their job. It's up to people who want it to get it done. If that's not fast enough for you, get involved.