Never heard that before. It's a nice folksy bit of wisdom... except very few people in old Ireland or England could afford a fair bit of land, and even fewer could afford to build a folly upon it.
It unifies the Operating System with the cloud. Your local storage becomes irrelevant while at the same time you have full durability and portability of your environment on any device in the world.
I think more to the point, why would someone use this as opposed to a remote-desktop service from an established company like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, ...
This isn’t a Remote Desktop.
This is a cloud file system which loads your files and js apps on the front end in a way that it looks like a remote desktop
Do you see positioning this say against a Citrix (IE: corporate desktop virtualization) or as a Google Apps alternative, (IE: students, consumers looking for a cross-device solution)? Or something else altogether?
Woah is this a serious project then? Seems like a huge investment for a fun side project