Thanks for all the feedback. For those who desiring personal access to tools like dropbox, or windoze apps, or ... I suggest running a virtual containing whatever proprietary apps you want, and share a partition for exchanging data with it.
I stopped using proprietary apps years ago, because of version compatabilities; tool providers make a change, I lose access to archival data. However, my wife's business accountant insists on Quickbooks, so we run that in an isolated Windoze 7 Virtualbox using a shared partition (which gets nightly backups), sharing USB drives with the accountant. That means trusting Larry Ellison's gang, sigh ... Still, open source supports most of our essential tasks, including legacy devices abandoned by the fashionable. As Garrison Keillor said of the grocery store in his fictional town of Lake Wobegon, "If you can't find it at Ralph's, you can get along pretty good without it." Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
