On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 02:27:24PM +0100, mick wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:05:57 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
Surely, as they're not providing any computing power or resources, it can be 'free' in the same way as most Open Source software is.
"TANSTAAFL"
If you do not pay for a service, you are not the customer, you are the product. Google, Facebook and others base their entire (hugely profitable) businesses on that fact.
I cannot understand how anyone would willingly synchronise any personal data of any kind with a "free" cloud service.
Who is confused here??
As far as I can tell syncthing is *purely* software, you are not synchronising data with 'their' servers. All syncthing does it make it easy to synchronise data between two systems that are both your own.
... or have I totally lost the plot?
On 20/10, Chris Green wrote:
I cannot understand how anyone would willingly synchronise any personal data of any kind with a "free" cloud service.
Who is confused here??
As far as I can tell syncthing is *purely* software, you are not synchronising data with 'their' servers. All syncthing does it make it easy to synchronise data between two systems that are both your own.
... or have I totally lost the plot?
Yep, it's just software. It's peer-to-peer and you run it on your own machines.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:14:13 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 02:27:24PM +0100, mick wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:05:57 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
Surely, as they're not providing any computing power or resources, it can be 'free' in the same way as most Open Source software is.
"TANSTAAFL"
If you do not pay for a service, you are not the customer, you are the product. Google, Facebook and others base their entire (hugely profitable) businesses on that fact.
I cannot understand how anyone would willingly synchronise any personal data of any kind with a "free" cloud service.
Who is confused here??
Clearly in this case, me. For which my apologies to the list for the waste of electrons.
My response refers back to the OP which asked for alternatives to dropbox. Responses included google drive alongside the suggestions for FOSS to run on your own hardware. I so loathe all such products that I had completely missed the fact that Syncthing was /not/ such a product and that sensible alternatives to dropbox were being discussed.
I need to get out more.
As far as I can tell syncthing is *purely* software, you are not synchronising data with 'their' servers. All syncthing does it make it easy to synchronise data between two systems that are both your own.
... or have I totally lost the plot?
In this case no, but ....
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