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"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SV
by peterburkimsher 7y ago
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- el_benhameen 7y agoI don't think this really applies here. The commenter isn't saying "why would anyone use Dropbox when they could just roll their own with these open source tools", they're saying "this product is a good option for those who are specifically looking for an open source alternative".
- petepete 7y agoHe's referencing a comment from the original Dropbox announcement thread (linked). It's famous because it misses the point of Dropbox spectacularly.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoSure, but Syncthing doesn't miss the point at all,so it's slightly out of place to bring up that line.
- el_benhameen 7y agoRight, but my point is that the person he sent it in reply to didn’t miss the point in the same way.
- Lowkeyloki 7y agoOr does it? You certainly wouldn't run into an arbitrarily imposed device limit.
- hrktb 7y agoIt’s interesting to see how FTP became so fringe, when at a its peak pointing a browser at a FTP url would be enough to browse anonymously.
- jplayer01 7y agoI thought it was frowned upon to use version control on binary files? Or is it just git that doesn't support them?