How One New Service Is Tackling The Death Of The File System

Re:How One New Service Is Tackling The Death Of The File System by dvanduzer on Thursday April 25, 2013 @02:47PM (#5609102)

When I read this, especially the word "patented," the question that springs to mind is: why isn't Tahoe[0] succeeding?

(The same reason Linux on the desktop isn't? Other?)

[0] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

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Re:How One New Service Is Tackling The Death Of The File System by andreasvc on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:10PM (#5609543)

Tahoe looks interesting, I hadn't come across it before. What exactly is not succeeding about it? It sounds like BT sync minus the closed source / protocol.

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Re:How One New Service Is Tackling The Death Of The File System by dvanduzer on Thursday April 25, 2013 @09:28PM (#5610992)

Well, I chose "not succeeding" over "failing" on purpose. The project has been around in one form or another for about 8 years, but it still hasn't hit the mainstream.

Make no mistake, I'm a fan, but I'd rather see all these commercial players making proprietary front-end improvements to Tahoe instead of reinventing the core wheel.

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Re:How One New Service Is Tackling The Death Of The File System by tedchs on Friday April 26, 2013 @03:47PM (#5615027)

Whatever Tahoe is, maybe it's not succeeding because their web server is throwing Connection Refused errors?

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