Comments on: 10 free apps I wish were open source http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff Schroeder http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-68801 Jeff Schroeder Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:01:27 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-68801 Well for one, GNote doesn't support the official tomboy sync api[1]. The reference implementation is snowy[2] which is the basis for Tomboy Online, and of which I am one of the maintainers. If GNote wants to support note synchronization awesome! But we've not heard a peep of interest from them about it. Please keep your bigoted views about how awful mono is to yourself. Not everyone agrees. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Synchronization/REST/1.0 [2] http://live.gnome.org/Snowy Well for one, GNote doesn’t support the official tomboy sync api[1]. The reference implementation is snowy[2] which is the basis for Tomboy Online, and of which I am one of the maintainers.

If GNote wants to support note synchronization awesome! But we’ve not heard a peep of interest from them about it. Please keep your bigoted views about how awful mono is to yourself. Not everyone agrees.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Synchronization/REST/1.0
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Snowy

]]> By: Ryan Sharp http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-68701 Ryan Sharp Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:51:27 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-68701 No love for Gnote? Plenty of people absolutely refuse to install that hideous bloatware Mono. No love for Gnote? Plenty of people absolutely refuse to install that hideous bloatware Mono.

]]> By: stormy http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-50322 stormy Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:56:45 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-50322 I think we need to make sure that our technology solutions support our freedom whether we can host them ourselves or not. I also don't compile my own operating system but it's important to me that it's open source. Just because I don't plan to host my own email service doesn't mean it should also be open ... I think we need to make sure that our technology solutions support our freedom whether we can host them ourselves or not. I also don’t compile my own operating system but it’s important to me that it’s open source. Just because I don’t plan to host my own email service doesn’t mean it should also be open …

]]> By: Andy Wingo http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-50281 Andy Wingo Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:10:31 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-50281 Hi Stormy, Some discussions I was having led back to this old post of yours. I think it's useful to distinguish between services and software here. In another conversation, RMS noted (correctly) that "you can't install a copy of gmail on your own machine, even though in principle you could run the same software that runs gmail if it were published. Gmail is not free software, or open source software, because it is not software." It's certainly an excellent goal to work towards freedom, both as software users, and as people in an online world; but using SaaS, even AGPL SaaS, seems to work against that freedom. I wrote more on that topic here: <a href="http://wingolog.org/archives/2010/04/10/towards-a-gnu-autonomous-cloud" rel="nofollow">Towards a GNU Autonomous Cloud</a>. Anyway, hope you are well. Happy hacking :) Andy Hi Stormy,

Some discussions I was having led back to this old post of yours. I think it’s useful to distinguish between services and software here. In another conversation, RMS noted (correctly) that “you can’t install a copy of gmail on your own machine, even though in principle you could run the same software that runs gmail if it were published. Gmail is not free software, or open source software, because it is not software.”

It’s certainly an excellent goal to work towards freedom, both as software users, and as people in an online world; but using SaaS, even AGPL SaaS, seems to work against that freedom. I wrote more on that topic here: Towards a GNU Autonomous Cloud.

Anyway, hope you are well. Happy hacking :)

Andy

]]> By: Simon B. http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-8313 Simon B. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:44:38 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-8313 Sparkleshare.org is open source and due to replace Dropbox, supposedly "soon". They use git as backend. Then there's http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder which uses a central server, is mature, rumored to have a p2p transport, but somehow not popular at all. To try it out; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderInstall Sparkleshare.org is open source and due to replace Dropbox, supposedly “soon”. They use git as backend.
Then there’s http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder which uses a central server, is mature, rumored to have a p2p transport, but somehow not popular at all. To try it out; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderInstall

]]> By: Sean Fenton http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-8264 Sean Fenton Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:25:43 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-8264 Disapora is positioned as a decentralized Facebook alternative. Their recent funding drive on Kickstarter was very successful. http://www.joindiaspora.com/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr Sean Disapora is positioned as a decentralized Facebook alternative. Their recent funding drive on Kickstarter was very successful.

http://www.joindiaspora.com/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr

Sean

]]> By: Simon B. http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-5856 Simon B. Sat, 15 May 2010 04:47:00 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-5856 GBridge (windows only) does sync over Googles XMPP servers. GBridge (windows only) does sync over Googles XMPP servers.

]]> By: Jeff Schroeder http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-3087 Jeff Schroeder Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:18:57 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-3087 @Stormy, you might try sitebar for your bookmark needs: http://sitebar.org/ Also, Jef Spaleta is a full time troll. You might be better off ignoring him. @Stormy, you might try sitebar for your bookmark needs: http://sitebar.org/

Also, Jef Spaleta is a full time troll. You might be better off ignoring him.

]]> By: RainCT http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-2879 RainCT Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:54:21 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-2879 WebDAV requires a network connection in order to access to files, Dropbox holds the files on your computer and synchronizes them when network is available, so it's not so easy to get an equivalent, you'd still need to take care of figuring out the syncing. Anyway, I guess it wouldn't be particularly difficult to achieve, but what's really missing is a "apt-get and forget" solution, letting you setup everything easily and with a graphical interface. On the need for infrastructure, I disagree that this is a problem in the case of developing a Dropbox replacement. Personally I'd love to see some decentralized approach where my computers would all sync between them whenever they can find each other. WebDAV requires a network connection in order to access to files, Dropbox holds the files on your computer and synchronizes them when network is available, so it’s not so easy to get an equivalent, you’d still need to take care of figuring out the syncing. Anyway, I guess it wouldn’t be particularly difficult to achieve, but what’s really missing is a “apt-get and forget” solution, letting you setup everything easily and with a graphical interface.

On the need for infrastructure, I disagree that this is a problem in the case of developing a Dropbox replacement. Personally I’d love to see some decentralized approach where my computers would all sync between them whenever they can find each other.

]]> By: Stu http://stormyscorner.com/2010/04/10-free-apps-i-wish-were-open-sourc.html/comment-page-1#comment-2857 Stu Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:25:58 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/?p=1498#comment-2857 To state the blindingly obvious, these are services and are not apps. It would not make the slightest difference to open-source them because the essential component is access to a commercial server. To state the blindingly obvious, these are services and are not apps. It would not make the slightest difference to open-source them because the essential component is access to a commercial server.

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