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If the competitor offers https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux, developed in the open with a GPL license, is it reasonable
by lern_too_spel 4y ago
If the competitor offers https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux, developed in the open with a GPL license, is it reasonable to tell other people to take on the cost of building and maintaining a client for your paid service?
- jeffbee 4y agoWhich aspect of chromiumos drive integration and sync engine is not "developed in the open"? The dropbox source is distributed as a tarball and if you want to contribute to it "contact us". That doesn't meet my definition of "in the open".
- lern_too_spel 4y agoI didn't claim that ChromiumOS's code wasn't developed in the open. The fact remains that Google neither supports nor provides a Google Drive client for Debian and its derivatives or Redhat and its derivatives, while its competitor does. It is reasonable for people to complain about this.
- reaperducer 4y agois it reasonable to tell other people to take on the cost of building and maintaining a client for your paid service? Google barely squeaked by with $76 billion in revenue last year. It only has 156,500 employees. You can't possibly expect something like that from a company this resource-constrained.
- wrycoder 4y ago$480,000 per employee is quite decent, but hardly radical these days.
- Willish42 4y agoThey're actually not even as "resource constrained" as this comment implies, as the numbers here are off. Per https://abc.xyz/investor/ https://abc.xyz/investor/, Alphabet made $75 billion in Revenue in Q4. They made $76 billion in net income for all of 2021.