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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:26:08 +0000
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On 11/03/15 22:42, John F wrote:

> Exactly - and you can purchase a 1TB drive and a fireproof safe to put it in
> for less than the cost of a years rental on a good cloud server - even if
> the cloud server is free, it costs you in terms of dealing with the
> advertizing and spyware etc delivered with all the public services nowadays
>

Indeed.

But to be useful in today's world, it does need to be accessible to 
devices - which brings me back to the original problem :)