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Ubuntu One is missing the point
September 5th, 2009
(A new blog post in, what, half a year?)
Ubuntu One is Canonical’s new service that apparently allows you to sync files between your Ubuntu computers.
Great – now people with many computers can easily move data between them, no matter where they are! Save a document at home, it gets automatically downloaded at work on your laptop!
Wait, hold on a second…
Apparently you can only get it for Ubuntu.
Why? I’m sure many people use computers that run different operating systems. I use Windows on the desktop, Linux on the netbook (and it’s not even Ubuntu – Fedora). I guess One is a no go for me.
Incidentally, Dropbox is a similar service that gives away 2Gb of space for free, and works both on Windows, OS X and Linux!
PS. By using the above referral link, we both get extra space.
PS. I’ve changed the blog theme to something better than the awful one I made.
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