7 wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Open Source Developers calling for the next desktop revolution
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>> | Future GNOME releases might have seamless integration with online
>> | services and store their configuration on the web - Novell and parts of
>> | the community seem to agree with Red Hats proposal
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>
> I think the approach is fundamentally flawed.
> People are never going to let go of their desktops.
> The ideas of grabbing someone's desktop bits and pieces
> and placing it on the web so that you can charge
> for accessing your own private data is fatal in terms of common
> sense and privacy. And users are going to recognise this.
>
> The proper way to move forward is to make the desktop widgets
> and web site widget technologies the same so that there is seamless
> integration *FOR-DEVELOPERS* between desktops and websites.
> The situation is absolutely dumb at present.
> You have media player of one type or another that you must download
> for your browser while your desktop has other ideas about how
> to play that video. Most of the problem is created by proprietory
> companies. It should be possible to modify X and/or a windowing program
> such as ICEWM/KDE/GNOME and then integate it with Apache through GPL3
> so that all the widgets, windows, panes, controls etc and xml that renders
> the screen is the same. Then you have a revolution, because you
> liberated *THE-DEVELOPERS* to write GUI applications that are seamless
> between web sites, desktops, and embedded devices; whereas
> at the moment you have three+ camps all doing their different things.
>
>
>
>> http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2964567
>>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> Desktop On Demand - New WebOS Launches
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>> | The product is being built by a company called Defuturo, which says
>> | that the core of DOD is the Linux Gnome desktop environment "and the
>> | growing myriad of applications constantly being developed for it." So
>> | it is using an open source platform and building a virtual desktop
>> | service on top of that. DOD aims to extend rather than replace a
>> | local computer, but I think they need to work on their messaging
>> | on how exactly they'll do this.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/desktop_on_demand.php
I agree that it is a flawed concept from the point of view of privacy to use
central repositories such as Google, because it simply makes Google a much
more juicy target to crack. As such, the likelyhood that someone will make
the effort is quite high. The more concerted the effort, the greater the
likelyhood of success.
On the other hand, for a company that has people out and about in the field,
it would be worth while for them to run their own web2 applications. Here
all the corporate data is securely stored on the company's own servers.
This solves the stolen laptop problem. This model would also permit
companies to use cheap Linux appliances in the field as the computing grunt
is back in the server room. These inexpensive units would also be much less
of a target for theft.
Ian
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