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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 6, 2014 at 02:43 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>For your 10 EUR a month, you’re getting one whole terabyte from Soonr.
>Which is a lot of storage.
Indeed; by the way, this is what you get now from Dropbox too
https://www.dropbox.com/pro?oqa=pro_announce_hp
I was sure that they would drop their price per Gbyte after Google Drive announced its new prices earlier this year; interestingly, instead of actually dropping the subscription price, they increased the space.
Re encryption, I have personally relied on Nomadesk (Belgian) and Wuala (Swiss) for sensitive info, but Boxcryptor sounds like a convenient solution because one can limit the number of clients running in their PC.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 6, 2014 at 09:03 PM
On the one hand, impressed by the expansion of Dropbox services.
On the other, would point out that they are still ineluctably US-based.
And they have Hilary Clinton as a director (just saying!).
In short, you would have to pry my credit card from my cold, dead hand before you could persuade me to give Dropbox my money… ;-)
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 6, 2014 at 09:17 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>On the one hand, impressed by the expansion of Dropbox services.
>On the other, would point out that they are still ineluctably US-based.
>And they have Hilary Clinton as a director (just saying!).
>In short, you would have to pry my credit card from my cold, dead hand
>before you could persuade me to give Dropbox my money… ;-)
So, what machines and software do you use? Apple = US company, Devontechnologies = half German, half US-American, Omni = US-American, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, ...
Hm. BTW, I never paid a cent to Dropbox, I have 18.5 GByte for free. But I wouldn’t mind paying them. The offer a decent service.
Posted by MenAgerie
Sep 6, 2014 at 09:38 PM
I thought it was Condoleezza Rice?
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 6, 2014 at 10:36 PM
You’re right, it is Condoleezzzza.
And yes, Franz, I’m overstating it shamefully, entirely for comedic effect. But the decision of the US courts to insist that Microsoft should hand over data held in Ireland has, I think, thrown a shadow over 100% US-owned services. What bothers me even more about that is the failure by the Irish government to make any kind of statement along the lines of ‘hold on, that would be illegal under Irish law’. No, they’re too dependent on American goodwill to dare to do that.
I would love to see a European computer maker come out with a convincing hardware and software platform. So far, no dice. But as far as the Cloud is concerned, we do still have options - in fact, we have some very good ones. Hence my (frivolous) remark.
Cheers,
Bill