[rogerbinns]

I am mystified as to why Google keeps ignoring Linux especially for Drive. Don't a non-trivial number of Google employees run Linux? It also rules out Drive for company wide deployment if any of the people are using Linux, since they will be excluded.

That is one thing Dropbox at least gets right.

[AdmiralAsshat]

If memory serves, Google runs a custom build of Ubuntu which they've never released--probably due to licensing with Canonical. My guess would be that the Linux Google Drive client may, too, have some restricted licensing. We do know they have one, however:

http://www.webupd8.org/2015/01/official-google-drive-linux-c...

[matt4077]

Linux marketshare is around 1.5%, and I'd speculate those choosing Linux tend to be less willing to trust google/the cloud with their data than average.

It's just not worth it when the best-case outcome is indistinguishable from a rounding error,

[rogerbinns]

You are talking about individual deployments where plain market share is reasonable. I'm talking about group deployments where multiple people need to work together. In that case the solution has to work for everyone.