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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
Call me paranoid, but I am so glad that I am rid of MS for good and that my system is so stable yet flexible that every MS thing gives me a bad toothache! Dropbox works absolutely great on my Ubuntu 9.10 system and so is O'Reilly's bookworm and Calibre's content server. Why bother about Live Mesh at all?
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Because, as my mother used to say, "ne mets pas tous tes oeufs dans le même panier" (french for "don't put all your eggs in the same basket"), which means that it's good to have choices...
Maybe one day DropBox will become paying, and we'll be happy to have investigated other services ?
But in the meantime you're quite right, Microsoft services are usually bad on platforms other than Windows, and DropBox just works ... wait for it ... out of the box
