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It's hard to see myself choosing this over Dropbox. Currently no cross-platform support, and it's still a proprietary client.

*edit: My bad. I googled for 'ubuntuone license' and the excerpt said it was proprietary. The Launchpad page now says GPLv3. No code released yet, but I'm sure it will follow as the project goes public:

https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client




Well if this goes open source maybe we will indeed have a dropbox for private servers.


That's only for the client though, not for the server.


If they develop an open source client for it, someone will develop an open source server to interact with the client. That's the way it works!


maybe dropbox will one-up them by open-sourcing their software?




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