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Hello Alan,

I have a quick question for you which might be of interest to others as well:

Why isn't SpiderOak open source yet?

I've read your FAQ answer[1] on this, however it doesn't really give a concrete explanation, besides "soon" and "licencing concerns" which is definitely disappointing.

I currently use my own, EncFS based sync solution, however I'd love to be able to use SpiderOak, or a third party open source application which supported syncing with SpiderOak (if you'd ever consider exposing an API/Protocol which allowed such.)

This is the only reason I'm not using your service currently, however I love the concept and hope you'll take it into consideration. It's likely I'm not the only one with similar concerns.

[1]: https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/35/why_isnt_spideroak_op...




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