Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Jul 2007 22:40 UTC, submitted by zaboing
During his opening speech at the GNOME Developers conference GUADEC Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu distribution, called for a common vision inside the project, an area in which the project as a whole is currently lacking. Only a few hours later Red Hat developers Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark presented their own proposal for a reinvention of the Open Source desktop: The GNOME Online Desktop. My take: As I have been saying for a long time, GNOME needs a vision (and leaders) for the future. I'm glad that people are finally stepping up.
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Am I the only one who shudders at the thought of having all my information online at all times? If I'm controlling the server itself, that's one thing, but I'd rather not have something like an important document I'm writing to be on some server out there on the net.
There still is a use for having an Offline computer, though sadly it's starting to disappear. Also if you think about it, if we start moving towards a time when people just connect to their desktops all remotely, then all that money people have been spending on mass storage for their own system will be obsoleted.
One last point, this really couldn't work until everyone has Internet 2. Some places in the world or even in some cities can't get any higher than 256kbs, or even 56kbs.
I can see something like this in 10 years or so, but it's not very viable now.