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Google Drive does support Linux with the completely open source DriveFS and supporting userspace services like Seneschal in the ChromiumOS project. People who claim otherwise don't believe in actual open source software development, they just want a convenient quasi-commercial software package that doesn't cost them anything.



> they just want a convenient quasi-commercial software package that doesn't cost them anything.

Wouldn't I be paying for gdrive and thus expect to get working software? The free tier isn't enough for me and I would have paid if they had a linux client.

Its okay if they don't think linux is worth it, but your argument that i should pay for the software again seems really weird to me.


Again:

Google writes, maintains, distributes, and supports a working Drive client for Linux, called DriveFS.


This?

https://github.com/thejinx0r/DriveFS

It is the top hit for "google drivefs source code" on google. "google drivefs" just returns hits about clearing a cache on macos or something.

The duck duck go results are arguably more relevant, though one is a link to DriveFS.exe, which I don't plan to download.




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