They are different. Is it surprising for one company to spin out more than one language? For a company of their size and age, Google has actually not invented very many. Compare to Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and Adobe who have each created several.
Those of us who know anything about bandwidth and compression and (especially) latency can see the enormous technical obstacles facing a service like this, and Onlive has never done anything to explain how they intend to solve them. Instead, they've done everything they can to lock out independent reviewers with NDAs and closed demonstrations. A friend of mine described it as the gaming equivalent of the perpetual motion scam, and IMO that's spot on (except that Onlive would still have the draconian DRM issues even if it worked perfectly)..
Are you a time traveller from 2 years ago, or is this comment copy-pasted? Anyone (in the US) can try Onlive for free now, there's no more NDAs or closed demonstrations or whatever. Just shut up and go try it. It works fine for many people (including myself), it depends on your network connection of course.
You can have a centralized-server workflow when using a distributed tool. All you have to do is set up an extra server and say "Hey, this is the central server now".
Subversion has some advantages but that's not one of them.
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