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Almost everyone will have at least one completely up-to-date copy of their files. It's just a matter of signing up for a competing service and re-uploading. Fou
by jonknee 13y ago
Almost everyone will have at least one completely up-to-date copy of their files. It's just a matter of signing up for a competing service and re-uploading. Four months seems like a long enough time to accomplish that.
- diminish 13y agoFor something as important as "file storage" 12 months would be a safer option to make sure everyone was alerted and reacted. Or Ubuntu may keep the files as torrents/tars after that for up to 12 months and ask for a payment of for download.
- brewdad 13y agoThe problem with an extended shutdown is that it eliminates any sense of urgency to act. If I know I only have 2 months to find a new provider, I'll start searching and migrating now. Give me a year, and I'll ignore the problem for 10 months before acting.
- simias 13y agoFreezing the accounts would be enough to create this sense of urgency, you wouldn't be able to modify or upload new files on the system. You would have to look for an alternative at that point...
- hrjet 13y agoYeah, but it is better to cover for the users who won't be aware soon rather than the users who are aware but wouldn't care soon enough.
- diminish 13y agoyeah that's what i meant. People in special conditions who won't check their emails may lose all files... freezing in 4 months and keeping for 12 months may ensure nothing valuable is lost.
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- yaph 13y agoIt's not only about file storage. Ubuntu One offered a Web service to programmatically access the files. Imagine you've developed an application that interfaces with Ubuntu One and is mission critical for your business.
- jarek 13y agoThen you've learned a valuable lesson about how to design applications that are mission critical for your business.
- pekk 13y agoNot essentially different from if you developed your business application on a PaaS which went bust or raised prices. These things happen unless you keep them in mind
- jonknee 13y agoI bet you can count the number of people who did that on one hand. They're not shuttering the service because it was popular. They are open sourcing the code though, so you can run your own version and not change any code.