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Readme should be generalized to discuss in terms of working with any s3 providers
If you go through the text on the home page of s3cmd, it spends a lot of time talking about Amazon, about the pricing, etc. You might almost forget that S3 is a very popular protocol that many other companies support, many are cheaper, etc.
For example, Linode recommends s3cmd to talk to their Object Storage service: https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-use-object-storage/
Please generalize the home page to discuss it in terms of any s3 provider without showing favor to anyone.
The readme has not evolved a lot over the years, but if you want to do a PR with propositions for improvements to be more generic, I will not be against it.
I guess it is good to keep amazon related info and special cases, like the pricing, somewhere in the doc, because a lot of users are newbies and are looking for that, but otherwise there is no limitation to have more information about alternatives.
FYI, there is currently a wiki page available to list the alternatives and eventual configuration info: https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd/wiki/How-to-configure-s3cmd-for-alternative-S3-compatible-services
You can already easily add there info about Linode or any other service that you would know!
I think the pricing and other Amazon specific stuff belongs in the wiki, not in the README.md. I sent a pull request.