Re: [tlug] Dropbox

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Simon Cozens writes:

 > Dropbox might be slightly worse than something I could cook up myself, but
 > then, I don't *have* to cook it up myself.

Sure, but Dropbox is also a lot worse than several things you don't
have to cook up for yourself for most purposes I can think of.  What
Dropbox has going for it is that it's trivial to get started.  If the
trivial is all you need, fine, but it rarely stays that way, and then
Dropbox gets *in* your way.  Anyway, that was my experience.

True, Charles phrased his question in terms of "you could cook up your
own software", but we're discussing Linux here.  I think it's implicit
that *somebody* would share.