Comments on: Web Wine and Desktop Food http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/ My *other* country is in Iraq Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bryan Clark http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-373 Bryan Clark Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:52:20 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-373 For the spying it's not actually proving that our desktop applications aren't cool offline. It's really just showing that sharing and communicating (the open source way) is way better than just creating things offline and remaining that way. I think choice will always be a part of what ever Open Source projects do. There really isn't a way for an open source project to force you to use flickr or some other system, you'd always be able to open up the code and add what you want. Business and individuals get the same rights here. For the spying it’s not actually proving that our desktop applications aren’t cool offline. It’s really just showing that sharing and communicating (the open source way) is way better than just creating things offline and remaining that way.

I think choice will always be a part of what ever Open Source projects do. There really isn’t a way for an open source project to force you to use flickr or some other system, you’d always be able to open up the code and add what you want. Business and individuals get the same rights here.

]]> By: Maxo http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-367 Maxo Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:08:26 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-367 I have just been dipping my toe in the water with the online desktop thing. The first thing I'm really liking is having my data on the go. I used an ftp server to my home computer for a while, but that got old. Plus you have to worry about security and the computer needs to be on 24/7. I would really like to see the "online desktop" integration in the Linux, but would be pretty unhappy if I was forced. What I would like to see is industry standards so the OS and the online apps could easily snap in to each other. That way I am not dictated to using flickr. Another concern is choice, which gets back to the standards. If a business wanted to go to the online desktop so that it's employees could access the same thing from anywhere, they are unlikely to do something like that through a third party company like Google. Many companies would want to be able to provide their own servers that they can control so they can control and audit their data. With standards it makes it easy for multiple OSes to integrate to any online app, and for any online app to integrate to any OS. I have just been dipping my toe in the water with the online desktop thing. The first thing I’m really liking is having my data on the go. I used an ftp server to my home computer for a while, but that got old. Plus you have to worry about security and the computer needs to be on 24/7.
I would really like to see the “online desktop” integration in the Linux, but would be pretty unhappy if I was forced.
What I would like to see is industry standards so the OS and the online apps could easily snap in to each other. That way I am not dictated to using flickr.
Another concern is choice, which gets back to the standards. If a business wanted to go to the online desktop so that it’s employees could access the same thing from anywhere, they are unlikely to do something like that through a third party company like Google. Many companies would want to be able to provide their own servers that they can control so they can control and audit their data. With standards it makes it easy for multiple OSes to integrate to any online app, and for any online app to integrate to any OS.

]]> By: Quentin Hartman http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-366 Quentin Hartman Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:34:21 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-366 With so many people talking about the "online desktop" it's nice to see recognition that not all of us want that. I prefer not to trust certain pieces of data to other entities. I also thought the wine/food metaphor was particularly fitting in this case. The treatment of the online integration (wine) as an enhancement to the desktop (main meal) really meshed well. I really hope this is direction gnome takes. With so many people talking about the “online desktop” it’s nice to see recognition that not all of us want that. I prefer not to trust certain pieces of data to other entities. I also thought the wine/food metaphor was particularly fitting in this case. The treatment of the online integration (wine) as an enhancement to the desktop (main meal) really meshed well. I really hope this is direction gnome takes.

]]> By: Calum http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-365 Calum Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:30:15 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-365 I only wanted to be online to access a couple of Sun-internal IRC channels... email etc. was browsed and composed offline and sent when I got back to the hotel, a lot of the time :) I only wanted to be online to access a couple of Sun-internal IRC channels… email etc. was browsed and composed offline and sent when I got back to the hotel, a lot of the time :)

]]> By: Vincent Untz http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-364 Vincent Untz Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:58:44 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/07/26/web-wine-and-desktop-food/#comment-364 Hrm. I'm not sure the GUADEC spying is proving anything in this case: I'd guess most people were waiting for internet to get/send new mails or use svn. I could be wrong of course. Hrm. I’m not sure the GUADEC spying is proving anything in this case: I’d guess most people were waiting for internet to get/send new mails or use svn.

I could be wrong of course.

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