{"id":42,"date":"2009-05-17T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T07:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/why-ubuntuone-if-i-have-dropbox\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T07:55:33","slug":"why-ubuntuone-if-i-have-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/why-ubuntuone-if-i-have-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Why UbuntuOne if I have Dropbox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of talk going on about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntuone.com\/\">UbuntuOne<\/a>.\u00a0 All I have to say is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> trademark belongs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonical.com\/\">Canonical<\/a> and they can do with it what they want to.\u00a0 Also they are a business and surely they have the right to make money, and if that is by using their own trademark, why not.<\/p>\n<p>However today I want to ask why I should use UbuntuOne instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdropbox.com\/\">DropBox<\/a>.\u00a0 I have not used UbuntuOne yet, still waiting on my invite, so this is based on what I have read.\u00a0 UbuntuOne only support Linux and to be more specific Ubuntu.\u00a0 Also I could not gather how seamless it is integrated into Nautilus.\u00a0 I have been using Dropbox now for a while and has just worked perfectly.\u00a0 I can share files with Windows and\/or Mac users.\u00a0 When I run out of my free space on Dropbox I can upgrade and it seems to be cheaper than what UbuntuOne offers.<\/p>\n<p>Dropbox is not perfect.\u00a0 I would like to see better KDE support .. yes one can get it working but it is not nicely integrated.\u00a0 Also I would like to see the possibility to sync more than one folder. <\/p>\n<p>So for the time being I am a happy Dropbox user.<br clear=\"all\" \/>  <br \/>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntuone\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntuone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dropbox\" rel=\"tag\">dropbox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/canonical\" rel=\"tag\">canonical<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/mariusb.posterous.com\/why-ubuntuone-if-i-have-dropbox\">Marius posterous blog<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of talk going on about UbuntuOne.\u00a0 All I have to say is that the Ubuntu trademark belongs to Canonical and they can do with it what they want to.\u00a0 Also they are a business and surely they have the right to make money, and if that is by using their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}