[mmjaa]

Yes, I agree. There is what I would call a little more hubris than necessary in this side of the argument.

After all, it was once totally conceivable that a multi-million dollar company would be founded on the basis of, basically, a device driver.

We're still doing that sort of thing, its not a new phenomenon that some crack in the design/methods/ethics of a technology vendor is exploited by some un-controllable third-party. Gone are the days when Microsoft, by way of example, would have waged war and just built-in local- and remote- peer discovery, rsync++, etc. in response to this daring challenger to the hegemony.

I guess, I really do sort of miss that. Dropbox really sucks. I only use it because my friends do.

[uberchet]

Just for clarity: do you mean it sucks politically, e.g. for privacy reasons? I'm familiar with those objections for sure, but if you're saying it sucks at some other level I'd love to hear why.

[mmjaa]

It sucks from the perspective of the usurpation of agency in pursuit of luxury, which in my mind has led to decadence.

[uberchet]

Um.

In what way is Dropbox more guilty of this than any other tool/service provided by a third party?