[nikolak]

That one seems to be targeted more at periodical backups than what dropbox does, which is more closer to syncing and backing up at the same time.

Anyway, no I did not try it. From the website "It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP"

I've heard of 5 of those, I know how to use 3 for storage, I have accounts with only 2 (gmail, outlook), but 0 of them have clients that work on android and linux.

And using different, non official, clients on different platforms just doesn't sound like a install and forget about it type of deal like dropbox has. Can I take a picture on my phone and see it a minute later on my computer and vice versa? My guess would be "no".

As far as encryption and it being open source goes, I couldn't care less about that. I don't store too sensitive data on dropbox so I don't care if NSA, dropbox or some other government agency has easy access to my data on their servers.

As far as the open source argument goes it's simply irrelevant to me. I don't have time nor knowledge to go over its source and I doubt that many other people do, as far as I'm concerned the fact that it's open source doesn't change anything regarding to either security or functionality of that software.

I still stand by my statement that literally not a single piece of software exists that does the same as dropbox in terms of stability, functionality, ease of use, and cross platform compatibility.

[ultramancool]

Try out Wuala or Spideroak. Dead simple and client-side encryption enabled so there's no need to trust anyone.

Full Android and Linux support on both. Wuala and Spideroak even offer automatic camera upload on Android.

[freshhawk]

> I still stand by my statement that literally not a single piece of software exists that does the same as dropbox in terms of stability,

That seems a bit odd, since 4 sentences previously you state that you are pretty unfamiliar with the space "I've heard of 5 of those, I know how to use 3 for storage".

[nikolak]

>you are pretty unfamiliar with the space

Rackspace cloud files, as one of the things I haven't used from that list, is not even same thing as dropbox. I've researched software like dropbox when I deactivated it, I did not look into all possible file storage offers that may or may not work with 3rd party clients (such as duplicati, which doesn't have android client as far as I can tell).

Another often suggested option from comments here wuala did not work on my phone, it crashed instantly (not sure if it's fixed now). Spideroak was buggy iirc, I did try it but I'm not totally sure why I dropped it.

Also, both of those options are roughly 10 times more expensive than dropbox when you compare GB/$.