Re:Syncthing graduation day
by toomim on Saturday January 05, 2019 @04:03PM
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Resilio is already a separated spinoff from Bittorrent Inc. You don't have to worry about Bittorrent abandoning it ... just Resilio itself going under! (Which might be quite likely, since it's so small on its own.)
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Re:Syncthing graduation day
by luckman212 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:25PM
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I sure hope they don't go under (Resilio). Why do you say it's "quite likely"?
Because their only revenue is selling licenses of Resilio to corporations, and my hunch is that's a hard sell.
I might be wrong. Maybe they can compete with dropbox by being cheaper!
I liked Bittorrent Sync and later Resilio Sync a lot, but they have been very unreliable when it comes to pricing and licensing, changing both several times.
Their license structure is currently worthless to me. I have a license, but that is only for home use. They only offer subscription licenses for business. Subscription licenses are harder to purchase in some organizations, plus everyone that I want to offer files to needs to buy a license as well. This is a large downgrade from e.g. Dropbox, where one can just hand out download links, open file submission requests, etc.