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Re:Gdrive – A command line utility for interacting with Goog... by TillE on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:28PM (#12790313)
It makes Google's lack of official Linux support even more galling. Here's a tiny company which has had good Linux tools (command line and GUI) from very early on.

It's not an enormous technical challenge. Google, institutionally, just doesn't care. It's not about Linux, but everything outside of their top priorities gets completely neglected.

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Re:Gdrive – A command line utility for interacting with Goog... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:34PM (#12791845)
What's more amazing is that no Googler has done it on their 20% time.
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Re:Gdrive – A command line utility for interacting with Goog... by sammydavis on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:49PM (#12791991)
They have, they just didn't officially license it. Inside google, people are using gdrive that way.
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Re:Gdrive – A command line utility for interacting with Goog... by dorfsmay on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @10:32PM (#12793465)
Yes. I just wish Dropbox had better plans for small orgs (like a family).
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Re:Gdrive – A command line utility for interacting with Goog... by Chris2048 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:00AM (#12795722)
> not an enormous technical challenge

No, but once they officially make the thing, they have to support it.

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