If the competitor offers https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux, developed in the...

reaperducer · on Aug 1, 2022

is it reasonable to tell other people to take on the cost of building and maintaining a client for your paid service?

Google barely squeaked by with $76 billion in revenue last year. It only has 156,500 employees.

You can't possibly expect something like that from a company this resource-constrained.

Willish42 · on Aug 1, 2022

They're actually not even as "resource constrained" as this comment implies, as the numbers here are off.

Per https://abc.xyz/investor/, Alphabet made $75 billion in Revenue in Q4. They made $76 billion in net income for all of 2021.

wrycoder · on Aug 1, 2022

$480,000 per employee is quite decent, but hardly radical these days.

jeffbee · on Aug 1, 2022

Which aspect of chromiumos drive integration and sync engine is not "developed in the open"? The dropbox source is distributed as a tarball and if you want to contribute to it "contact us". That doesn't meet my definition of "in the open".

lern_too_spel · on Aug 1, 2022

I didn't claim that ChromiumOS's code wasn't developed in the open. The fact remains that Google neither supports nor provides a Google Drive client for Debian and its derivatives or Redhat and its derivatives, while its competitor does. It is reasonable for people to complain about this.