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Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by dzink »

A board member does not decide on features or dig into your account to look for your political preferences. I can think of a dozen reasons why they would have invited her and all of them would be good for the company and good for users:

- advise on security matters and help keep the NSA out of my files.

- get government business for Dropbox thus maybe reducing bureaucracy for citizens and small business owners alike in this country and others.

- help the company navigate Washington in a lot of ways

My imagination is poor on the subject, but I think if a company gets a politically savvy partner who was chief diplomat in the most powerful country in the world for a while it is for the benefit of the company and it's users.

Re: Drop Dropbox

#82

Post by untog »

rbanffy wrote: post #76
Cyph0n wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OneDrive is phenomenal. I've been using it for the past year or so and it's been a breeze.

No Linux support.

Not everyone needs that, though. It's still a valid suggestion.

Re: Drop Dropbox

#83

Post by mcv »

jpwagner wrote: post #50

I don't get this kind of stuff. I'm sure it's based on good intentions, but this will just lead to MORE nepotism and less transparency because the price of negative press is that much greater. It feels similar to the hit on the Mozilla guy, which really rubbed me the wrong way. For all I know he clubs baby seals in his free time, but nobody bothered to investigate the truth until it was too late. One individual or gr…

To me, this feels totally different from the Eich case. His political beliefs has nothing to do with Mozilla's product. However, giving someone who approves of wiretaps an important position in a company that people trust with their data, seems like an unbelievably bad idea.

It's not just about whether someone in the company has an opinion I find despicable, it's about whether my own data is still safe.

Re: Drop Dropbox

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Post by nb4hnp »

Deusdies wrote: post #18

I have generally been using Google Drive anyway, but after what this person did to my country as well, I am not going to support a company that supports her. Time to move all of my files from Dropbox to GDrive.

From one evil directly into another.

Re: Drop Dropbox

#87

Post by valarauca1 »

kyrra wrote: post #56
skrowl wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the new price point, Google Drive is really attractive

I do use Google Drive some, but the overall usability of it is a bit painful. They have a lot of nice features for sharing folders/files with others, but the organization of it's web UI is just painful to use at times.

Mega offers more storage for free, I don't know about ease of use.

Re: Drop Dropbox

#88

Post by mbrutsch »

Deusdies wrote: post #18

I have generally been using Google Drive anyway, but after what this person did to my country as well, I am not going to support a company that supports her. Time to move all of my files from Dropbox to GDrive.

That was quick and painless. I was already using gdrive for my work files; downloaded and installed gdrive sync in about 5 minutes, and now I have over 3 times the free space I did with Dropbox. Thanks, Condy!

Re: Drop Dropbox

#89

Post by EC1 »

bambax wrote: post #28
MPiccinato wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have been using https://copy.com without any issue.

It's an American company (Barracuda Inc.)

Any no bullshit European companies that can match the quality of Dropbox software?

I hate that I even have to make decisions like this, what the fuck kind of world are we living in.

Re: Drop Dropbox

#90

Post by equalarrow »

ajsharp wrote: post #20

This is just silly.

How so? So it's ok to be a part of the team that was responsible for killing many men, women, and children and not only not answer for it, but move on to be on company boards where you can be a part of some serious collection of money at some point? Wow, ok. We must be living in different realities because those years that she was part of will be looked at (or already are) as some of the worst - if not the worst - in American history.

It's sad that none of that crew will ever answer for what they started and did. Granted, there were a lot of people in that chain that should have stood up and said no and not killed anyone. But they didn't. And if you or I did any of those things not wearing an army uniform, we'd be locked up and/or on death row.

I would never in a million years even acknowledge anyone from that team let alone bring them on the board of my company. We really are in an era where it's all about valuations, elevator pitches, and exits. I'm waiting for some young company to bring Dick Cheney on next.

Pick your battles I guess and I will be looking for an alternative that doesn't welcome war criminals.

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