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Macha on Aug 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s in-house desktop Linux

If open source developers were going to do all the work, why would they do it for Google's walled garden, rather than Syncthing?

And that's why we now have N open source third party syncthing interfaces and no clone of the GDrive client.

shadowgovt on Aug 1, 2022 [–]

Exactly. Which is fine.

* Google doesn't see enough gain in supporting a Drive client for Linux

* Linux users don't see gain in feeding the beast

... so nobody dedicating their finite lives to solving this problem is win-win.

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