I already posted on this subject in the show 14 thread, but as this is here now too…
My general attitude to projects like ownCloud is to support and use them where practical, I’d been using DropBox but more recently their offering (data/function wise) is less and less appealing, and IMO *doesn’t match the functionallity of OC. OC doesn’t compete well function wise with Google Drive/Docs for web interface experience, but neither are great at this anyway, both being slow, heavy and somewhat unreliable. However I have little desire to bug report for Google Drive (however open-source it may or may not be), but for OC I might, although OC actually use the freemium model, so the stuff I want or that doesn’t work in the free version, I may need to pay for…Neither are ideal…
The case for using DropBox if find hard to justify simply because “it just works”, I think it’s more that “it just works and is popular” is more like it, as I don’t find it significantly better than Drive/OC/Copy/Mega, and IMO they loose points for their data policy https://www.dropbox.com/privacy2014 where there is plenty of scope for deeming it necessary to disclose you files (and arguably even more so now Condi Rice is on-board!)
SyncThing sounds like a great idea, *if you have more than a few file store devices/locations" but the case for ussing Bittorrent for syncing between only a few machines seems a bit pointless, and I’m surprised @sil you choose an unstable beta bit of software that requires all the pissing around to install and all the bugs to suffer as your choice of (not really cloud at all) data management, when you usually state the exact opposite choice when it comes to production software! SyncThing also doesn’t look like it would be useful for quick and easy file sharing/collaboration, but rather better suited for personal data management?