company:novell

Open Source Challenger to Dropbox and Box.net: ownCloud
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/12/open-source-challenger-to-drop.php

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The file sharing, synchronization market led by Dropbox is a popular target these days. For many companies, it’s a chance to horn in on a growing market and carve out a piece of the pie for themselves. For open source projects, it’s a chance to return control of personal data to the user. For the folks behind ownCloud, it’s both.

Now this is what will happen to you if yout try to connect a workstation inside your windows domain to the Dropbox (german): http://www.iris-media.info/spip.php?article3874 No, you don’t want to try.

Google translation (english): http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&rurl=translate.google.de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.iris-media.info/spip.php%3Farticle3874&usg=ALkJrhj3Ja5Jd9IDCPuO1fkh7qLd

Personally I think that ►http://sparkleshare.org might be a good start for your own data sync solution.

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Official #Google Blog : When patents attack Android
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html

la guerre des #brevets dans la téléphonie mobile

Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against #Android by #Microsoft, #Oracle, #Apple and other companies, waged through bogus #patents.

They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the “Rockstar” group including Microsoft and Apple), to make sure Google didn’t get them; seeking $15 licensing fees for every Android device; attempting to make it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android (which we provide free of charge) than Windows Phone 7; and even suing Barnes & Noble, HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it.

A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and our competitors want to impose a “tax” for these dubious patents (...)

This anti-competitive strategy is also escalating the cost of patents way beyond what they’re really worth. The winning $4.5 billion for Nortel’s patent portfolio was nearly five times larger than the pre-auction estimate of $1 billion. (...)

(...) We’re encouraged that the Department of Justice forced the group I mentioned earlier to license the former Novell patents on fair terms, and that it’s looking into whether Microsoft and Apple acquired the Nortel patents for anti-competitive means. We’re also looking at other ways to reduce the anti-competitive threats against Android by strengthening our own patent portfolio.

Le site Dsfc : formation autour du logiciel libre, Linux, MySQL, mais aussi SQL Server, Oracle et les langages Php, Perl, Javascript http://www.dsfc.net

Syncany – Le Dropbox open source
http://www.korben.info/syncany-le-dropbox-open-source.html

#Syncany fonctionne de manière similaire à #Dropbox, possède une couche de chiffrement et permet la sauvegarde sur (au choix) un espace local (un disque partagé par exemple), un serveur FTP, un serveur accessible en SSH (#SFTP pour être exact), un serveur IMAP, un partage #webdav ou si vraiment vous le désirez, sur des services de stockage en ligne comme #Box.net, Amazon #S3, #Picasa ou encore #Google_Storage.

(ne vous emballez pas, c’est de l’alpha)