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For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software

In all seriousness, have you looked at OneDrive + Office365?

For $70/year you get 1 TB of storage, a client that works on all platforms, plus Microsoft Office 365 (online) and two licences for the desktop install of Microsoft Office plus the Office apps for iOS/Android. It's a great deal and works well.

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Doesn't work on Linux which is what the quote you're referencing is talking about. Office365 comes with it's own challenges. Plus your documents are all scanned and there is no privacy protection, especially not from the US government.

Dropbox is a US company, I don't see how you get better privacy protection there. Plus Microsoft has a petty good track record, they've challenged US government requests for information in court, and fought to prevent the government from accessing data stored outside the country.

Dropbox has equal access to your files as Microsoft does. Which is why Syncthing/Bittorrent sync is very useful.

It's also limited to just being a shared folder feature.

I moved myself to this, along with the family plan ($99/USD/yr, IIRC). The nice thing is that you can still buy the Office suite separately if you want. The other thing is I finally wanted to settle on "one" cloud storage provider for me and my family, so the addition of OneDrive sealed it when combined with Excel.

Honestly, Office365 is something of a model for the SaaS software I've bought: the core offering (Office) is still available with an eternal license, but the SaaS offering is very good, well priced, and the value add of OneDrive is great when competitors charge for storage separately. There are a lot of issues with SaaS (velocity, feedback loops) but they did this one right, I think.

(The funny thing is I have an iPhone and almost exclusively use Linux, so obviously I live in a bizarro world.)

That $70/year gets you the 1TB of storage and everything else you mention, per person, for up to five people. That's a total of up to 5TB. Perfect for a family.

(at least, that's the standard offering here in Europe...)

I agree, best deal going. Also, I really appreciate the web app versions of the Office apps for use on Linux.

Also getting up to date Office apps on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is valuable to me even if cumulatively I only use them two or three hours a month.

What if you want more than 1 TB?

I've not found any option to purchase more storage for a non-business Office365 account.

Office 365 is $99 a year for 6 users each with 1TB. You can create another user and share their 1TB with your primary account.

It doesn’t work like DropBox, the shared space is added to yours. With Dropbox, any shared folders are subtracted from your allocated space.

Upgrade to the family plan for $99 for 6 TB.

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