I've looked at ownCloud several times simply as a tool that I wanted to use, and each time I was turned off because of very distinctly je ne sais quoi icky feel

I've looked at ownCloud several times simply as a tool that I wanted to use, and each time I was turned off because of very distinctly je ne sais quoi icky feeling. For what seemed like an open source, drop-in dropbox replacement, the sales pitch seemed to add a lot of unnecessary crap.