Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox

Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by Egregore on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @06:44AM (#2990812)

I have not signed up, but from examining your site it seems that you don't have payed accounts, as a user I'll be afraid to trust you my files for a long time, even for free accounts, because it will seem that you're not sustainable and will go bust some time in the future and I will lose my files.

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by lloeki on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:12AM (#2990892)

From the help page (emphasis mine):

> Why is Minus absolutely free? > > Our goal is to create a world-class product and experience for our users and the business model will follow. We can see many ways Minus can monetize itself.

Wow. Wishful thinking?

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by mindotus on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @06:02PM (#2993736)

There are many proven business models that work for this space and Minus is also currently well funded. We are here to stay and your files are safe, no worries :)

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by mindotus on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @06:01PM (#2993734)

Minus is currently funded and we plan on implementing sustainable business models in the future. No need to worry :) Your files are safe.

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by skrebbel on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:05AM (#2990866)

Weird title - nothing about this company seems French

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by lloeki on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:08AM (#2990876)

Nothing indeed: http://minus.com/pages/about

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by smoyer on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:09AM (#2990881)

And from the blog: "We’ve been at our NYC office for only a month and ..."

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by koopajah on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:32AM (#2990942)

Yeah sorry seems that I completely mixed two news at the same time. This one about a dropbox "clone" and a one about a new cloud solution by a French company.

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by joelhaasnoot on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:09AM (#2990883)

Only the word 'concurrent' is French

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by koopajah on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:34AM (#2990946)

Sorry, as I said in another comment I mixed two news at the same time. I edited the title to reflect the proper pitch about Minus. My bad!

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by wccrawford on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:14AM (#2990899)

"Concurrent"? Did you mean competitor, or counterpart, or clone?

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by joelhaasnoot on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:03AM (#2990862)

concurrent = competitor

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by DrJokepu on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:10AM (#2990886)

Useless trivia: the French word for a competitor is "concourant", hence the mistranslation.

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by lloeki on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:16AM (#2990904)

Useless trivia, round 2: concourant(fr) is concurrent(en) as in concurrency(en), concurrent(fr) from concourir(fr) is indeed competitor(en)

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Re:Minus, a new competitor to Dropbox by valinor4 on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:13AM (#2990896)

no, it is not. the french word for a competitor is "concurrent".

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