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0 pointsxxpor15y ago0 comments

2 things that I can think of immediately

1. Would increase adoption on Linux clients 2. Increased security (the whole security though obscurity doesn't work thing)

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edanm15y ago· 2 in thread

Well, I don't think the Linux market is big enough to make it a compelling argument (but I really don't know; I could be dead wrong).

As for security, I'm not sure how big a problem Dropbox has with security. And I would't open-source a client just to get better security for it, but maybe that's just me.

Open sourcing the client is betting on the fact that the client doesn't matter. Maybe it doesn't matter, but maybe it does. More importantly, maybe we think it doesn't matter right now, but we'll find out that we were wrong in 2 years, after it's too late.

michaelbuckbee15y ago

Linux as a desktop client is potentially too small a market to address, I'm not sure the same could be said about the Linux server market.

edanm15y ago

Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

Are people using Dropbox on servers, though? A lot of the benefits of Dropbox don't strike me as helping for servers, for the most part. I don't have too much experience, but it seems to me servers are one place you have to actively manage your backups, and can't rely on the "it just works" philosophy of Dropbox.

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