Ubuntu One : Store, Sync & Share

While we launched the beta today with file sharing, our plan is to make Ubuntu One much more than a file sharing service: <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8843" rel="nofollow">http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8843</a> "Ubuntu One provides shared synchronised storage and databases for developers: you store your data and Ubuntu One takes care of making it available to every other person and every other machine you’ve shared it to. In addition to this set of simple APIs which you can use to get synchronised data, Ubuntu One also offers services built on top of these: work with your users’ contacts to make it easy to share information with other people, and build services on top of all these APIs which work everywhere, both from the web and from the desktop."<p>-elliot <a href="https://launchpad.net/~statik/" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/~statik/</a>

It's hard to see myself choosing this over Dropbox. Currently no cross-platform support, and it's still a proprietary client.<p>*edit: My bad. I googled for 'ubuntuone license' and the excerpt said it was proprietary. The Launchpad page now says GPLv3. No code released yet, but I'm sure it will follow as the project goes public:<p><a href="https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client" rel="nofollow">https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client</a>

Am I the only one who thinks these prices are really high? I appreciate the free 2GB you get, but I think $10/month for 8GB extra is just way to much. I can get a VPS with 20GB of disk drive for that. With something like $25/year I wouldn't mind at all, but for $10/month I expect a bit more than 2-&#62;10GB.

Looks like dropbox for ubuntu.

Why do I think it'll turn into yet another Megaupload or Rapidshare crack/porn/app upload site?<p>All you gotta do is wrap your stuff in encrypted zips and dump the passwords where the links are.