Google to encrypt cloud storage

rysiek rysiek at hackerspace.pl
Tue Aug 20 15:45:29 PDT 2013


Dnia środa, 21 sierpnia 2013 00:21:49 Moon Jones pisze:
> On 19.08.2013 23:20, grarpamp wrote:
> > With the same dev money Google could be funding open source projects
> > like tahoelafs, p2p messaging, etc that put the keys in the hands of the
> > user for easy use. Yet no, they compete against them. They're a business,
> > they've become and catered to more corporate/gov base, that's normal,
> > write around them and claim the user base.
> 
> Yet they not only support SMTP and IMAP4, but they give instructions on
> how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird.

How gracious of them!

Ever heard of SPDY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY

Are you willing to bet that this will not become the Embrace, Extend, 
Extinguish of our time (this time with regard to HTTP)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_extend_extinguish

> They use XMPP and they allow connections from outside their network.

Uhm... I'd be very careful with this one:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/2315216/google-drops-xmpp-support
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2013/05/hangouts-wont-hangout-with-other.html

> In most ways they are way ahead of the competition.

And most of these cases are a relic of a bygone era when Google actually 
practised what they preach, because they were the small, geeky underdog pitted 
against giants like Microsoft.

Now they themselves are a giant and are slowly but steadily abandoning their 
open-source, open-standards ways in favour of walled-gardens, proprietary 
protocols and such.

> To me it sounds pretty much like the GNU/Linux kernel development: make your
> project popular enough and conform to our coding structure and we're going
> to include it in the main tree. Fail to do so and you are free to develop
> patches and loadable modules.

Where did *that* metaphore come from?..

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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