{"id":8537,"date":"2014-01-15T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2014-01-15T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:16:40","slug":"sincerest-form-flattery-imitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/sincerest-form-flattery-imitation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sincerest Form of Flattery is Imitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><strong><em>Especially when you are being imitated by a world-wide, well-respected, don\u2019t-do-evil company.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I caught this <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/01\/14\/google-drive-adds-activity-stream-makes-tracking-changes-to-shared-documents-easier\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> on TechCrunch today from Google. Great idea! Wait, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/owncloud.org\/six\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our idea first<\/a>. Even the same name, and to be blunt, exactly the same capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>But we are open source and we\u2019re frankly flattered by the imitation. After all, Google Drive is fully in the cloud, we\u2019re on premises (and\/or the cloud storage service of your choice) for more controllable, secure, extensible data access \u2013 and we don\u2019t track your usage.<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:de--><strong>Well, it certainly looks like we are heading in the right direction and that the \u201cbig guys\u201d are taking notice.<\/strong><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especially when you are being imitated by the &#8222;big guys&#8220; like Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}