We all know that RMS do not like the concept of cloud storage, since the > data is not in our hands once we submit to the cloud and so the control is. > > Dropbox is one famous and popular File sync service that operates over the > cloud, where you can connect your Tablets / Smartphones / Laptops / > Desktops using dropbox account and so uploading a file to one of your > connected devices will automagically download the files to all the other > devices that are connected and synced with your dropbox account. > > Here, the data you upload from your device is stored in dropbox cloud > servers and then the copy of that file is actually downloaded to your other > devices I hope. > > At later point of time, BitTorrent came up with an idea of eliminating > Cloud storage as a middle man from this architecture and so they released a > client called BTSYNC or BitTorrent Sync which is pretty good that operates > over the poplular bittorrent peer to peer protocol. But again this BTSYNC > client is not Free of Open. > > Here comes an Open / Free Software alternative (GPL v3) named ClearSkies > https://github.com/jewel/clearskies >
We are using another open-source alternative for file sharing -Owncloud ( www.owncloud.org). Its a fantastic tool with lot of features. You can find the source @ https://github.com/owncloud > > I haven't tried it as of now. So use at your interest. I will post an > review once I try it out. > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Prasanna Venkadesh. > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > -- Siji Sunny _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
