Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk
Dropbox has one advantage over its competition: I got 50GB free with my phone. However, given that I'm not even close to the free 2GB usage yet that's a bit meaningless. What would you recommend as an alternative? Minimum requirement is clients for Linux, Windows and Android, with obviously the ability to sync but also to share certain files/directories between users.
Owncloud, either with your own storage (it can use lots) but I don't remember if anyone does loss-leader offers like the free 2GB for it yet. It's a pretty buoyant market just now, it's quite a gamble to offer lots of free accounts and I'm not sure why you would do it much unless you're desperate to grow quick and to hell with margins.
It has rough edges from time to time, but so do the anti-social alternatives like Dropbox, as you've found...
Regards,