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> Are you kidding about Dropbox? Drop an old, well know tech by a fancy new protocol with vendor lock-in? That a bit of a false dichotomy, isn't it? SFTP (for
by SEMW 11y ago
> Are you kidding about Dropbox? Drop an old, well know tech by a fancy new protocol with vendor lock-in?
That a bit of a false dichotomy, isn't it? SFTP (for example) is also a well-known, well-established, and open protocol, and suffers from none of the problems the article lists. The choice is not 'FTP or proprietary'.
- cm2187 11y agoBut it suffers from other problems like compatibility. I never managed to get the filezilla ftp client to connect to a secure IIS ftp server. And visual studio for instance can't deploy to sftp.
- mdellabitta 11y agoSounds like Microsoft has to up their game, then...