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georgemcbay
on Feb 28, 2013
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Why was my email leaked?
IOW, they work for Dropbox, they just don't get paid for it.
res0nat0r
on Feb 28, 2013
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That's why they are volunteers.
scarmig
on Feb 28, 2013
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Wait, what? Volunteering in general or even open source or community software projects makes plenty of sense, but why the hell would anyone volunteer for a private for-profit like Dropbox?
Is it some kind of internship scam?
res0nat0r
on March 1, 2013
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Some customers really like the product and don't mind helping out other users on forums for free. Happens all over the place on forums of all types.
rhizome
on Feb 28, 2013
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That didn't work out so perfectly for AOL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program
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