LWN: Comments on "KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud (KDE.News)"

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

nye — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:17:50 +0000

So... this is basically about standardising federated social networking, yes?

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

dgm — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:29:17 +0000

What I would like to see instead is a real way to make collaboration possible from the desktop.
Think of a peer-to-peer desktop that allows me to share files, chat, talk or work collaboratively over the Internet _without_ a server.

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

jmm82 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:28:52 +0000

That is why marketing folk eat this word "cloud" up. With infinite meanings,
the possibilities are endless. They can just sell someone a cloud and then
find out what they really want, then create and deliver. Business as usual.

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

mattdm — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:14:41 +0000

Gah! Sending an email from Gmail to all Facebook contacts is currently impossible, it says. Let me be the first to say: thank goodness.

But in general, the whole thing suffers from the what do they mean by cloud this time problem. After reading it, this seems to be "the regular Internet, but now we call it 'cloud'". And you can rate wallpaper.