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What's wrong with Dropbox again?

minm 14y ago
There are many reasons: 1. Security 2. Dropbox is not suitable for professionals like Lawyers, Accountants, Tax professionals and Healthcare providers 3. EU and Canada Data privacy laws require certain companies to store data inside the country 4.You cannot brand dropbox for your business. You can brand Tonido. 5.You cannot run dropbox in your domain. With Tonido you can. Do you want more reasons?
- avree 14y ago
  At least 50% of your comments/submissions are plugging Tonido. Do you work for them?
  - minm 14y ago
    I am stating the facts here. If you have anything to refute the facts let us talk about that. So what is your interest in Dropbox?
    - lubos 14y ago
      No, this is not how we roll here. If you have any association with the company, you put it in disclaimer to reveal bias.
      - jimktrains2 14y ago
        Alternativly you could just point out where he is wrong or show that Tonido isn't a unique player in the market. I agree, biases should be revealed, but just berating him and not his argument doesn't move anything forward.
- carterschonwald 14y ago
  Suitable in what sense? I certainly know lawyers who use dropbox.
  - minm 14y ago
    As a lawyer, you have professional obligations to protect your client's confidential information. Storing it in a public cloud services provides unfettered govt access if they choose to. I hope u heard about the petraeus Incident.
Shorel 14y ago
I have one Dropbox folder. It is linked to my account. I have several GIT folders one for every project. Other people have access to some of the GIT folders and the files there don't count against some global quota linked to my account. I want to have several Dropbox folders in the same computer, that's all.
- rogerbinns 14y ago
  > I want to have several Dropbox folders in the same computer, that's all. If they are all from the same Dropbox account then it already works, although you may need to use symbolic links or equivalents. If there are multiple Dropbox accounts then you can do it on Linux because they also have command line tools which you can run as separate instances pointing to different accounts (clean up environment and set $HOME).
  - Shorel 14y ago
    No, the whole point is to not to be tied to a single account in Windows.

minm 14y ago

There are many reasons: 1. Security 2. Dropbox is not suitable for professionals like Lawyers, Accountants, Tax professionals and Healthcare providers 3. EU and Canada Data privacy laws require certain companies to store data inside the country 4.You cannot brand dropbox for your business. You can brand Tonido. 5.You cannot run dropbox in your domain. With Tonido you can. Do you want more reasons?

avree 14y ago
At least 50% of your comments/submissions are plugging Tonido. Do you work for them?
- minm 14y ago
  I am stating the facts here. If you have anything to refute the facts let us talk about that. So what is your interest in Dropbox?
  - lubos 14y ago
    No, this is not how we roll here. If you have any association with the company, you put it in disclaimer to reveal bias.
    - jimktrains2 14y ago
      Alternativly you could just point out where he is wrong or show that Tonido isn't a unique player in the market. I agree, biases should be revealed, but just berating him and not his argument doesn't move anything forward.
carterschonwald 14y ago
Suitable in what sense? I certainly know lawyers who use dropbox.
- minm 14y ago
  As a lawyer, you have professional obligations to protect your client's confidential information. Storing it in a public cloud services provides unfettered govt access if they choose to. I hope u heard about the petraeus Incident.

Shorel 14y ago

I have one Dropbox folder. It is linked to my account. I have several GIT folders one for every project. Other people have access to some of the GIT folders and the files there don't count against some global quota linked to my account. I want to have several Dropbox folders in the same computer, that's all.

rogerbinns 14y ago
> I want to have several Dropbox folders in the same computer, that's all. If they are all from the same Dropbox account then it already works, although you may need to use symbolic links or equivalents. If there are multiple Dropbox accounts then you can do it on Linux because they also have command line tools which you can run as separate instances pointing to different accounts (clean up environment and set $HOME).
- Shorel 14y ago
  No, the whole point is to not to be tied to a single account in Windows.