Linux Journal, one of the most important sources (printed & online) for the Linux & Free Software Community published an article about eyeOS in its January 2009 issue, wrote by Doc Searls, called “eyeOS: Clouds for the Crowd“. In the article we can learn about eyeOS as an alternative to the big Cloud Computing players such as Google, Amazon or Microsoft, with a main difference: eyeOS is Free, Open Source, which means that it’s not just a Cloud service but that anyone can create a Cloud system with eyeOS.
And this is a good moment to stop and see where we are and what’s eyeOS today. During more than 3 years we have been working in eyeOS (initially a small group of young people, now with people from all around the world) because we had, and we have, a common ideal: Building a “Web Operating System”, a “Web Desktop”, a “Cloud Computing Operating System”, or whatever you want to call it: a web based system that creates desktops for its users and allows them to use the desktop, applications and files from anywhere in the network -internal or from Internet-. It seems that the idea was not so stupid, and big companies will come to this place soon.
Almost all of them, however, will ask the user to send them their data (photos, documents, music…) to their servers. This may be OK for some users (and they can also do it with eyeOS, using the free server or the professional servers available since November 2008), but may be not acceptable for public administrations, schools and others. Here is where eyeOS is really important: for all those who want to keep their data privately and do not want to send it anywhere and for those who want to develop Cloud Applications and host them on their servers. And this is how eyeOS solves the privacy concern around the Cloud Computing.
To sum up, we are creating the free alternative to the cloud systems that haven’t appeared yet. And we’re building it together with all the people who wants to join eyeOS at the developers community, help forums, translators and more. There are dozens of ways to get involucrated, and if you haven’t done it yet, we invite you today to join us. Because we all together are building a piece of the future, and it depends on all of us if it will be a really important piece of it.
