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And suffers from the same underlying problem as Dropbox and iCloud: it's profit-driven proprietary software. Are you sure your interests as a user are aligned w
by southerntofu 5y ago
And suffers from the same underlying problem as Dropbox and iCloud: it's profit-driven proprietary software. Are you sure your interests as a user are aligned with that of Microsoft as a company? Are you confident that will not change over time?
- quickthrower2 5y agoIm not, and thats why I don’t rely on it too much. For backup I rely on backblaze - and i pay them for the service. Microsoft OneDrive is clearly a loss leader as it is so cheap when used in a family plan it is crazy! Im more worried about my gmail reliance to be honest.
- adwn 5y agoAre you sure your interests as a user are aligned with that of Syncthing's open source developers? Are you confident that will not change over time?
- southerntofu 5y agoI'm confident they are at the moment. And i'm even more confident that if that ever changes, i'll find many people in a HN/Github thread whose interest are very much aligned with mine to fork the project and keep it going in a direction that suits us. Something you won't ever be able to do with a proprietary piece of software, unless of course you're willing to spend thousands of hours reverse-engineering a protocol they're going to change as soon as you achieve interop.