KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud (KDE.News)

KDE.News has a look at the ownCloud initiative coming out of the Camp KDE discussions. "If and when a serious number of providers join this effort or support the interface, nobody will have to join a myriad of different social networks just because he or she has friends on all these incompatible, separate clouds - they will all be able to connect. If users are unhappy with a provider, they will be able to move on to another provider without losing all of the information and connections they have created with that provider, opening up the market and creating opportunities for new companies and innovative services. As an added benefit, users concerned about their online security and privacy can stay in full control of their own data by running their own cloud server." More information can be found in this slide deck [PDF].

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