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It is ironic, you're right. But we all know Dropbox was never really respected by the userbase here, beyond being a magical money making endeavor. All the ini

• pjmlp 7y ago
  Surely Dropbox wouldn't have been a sucessful business if it was more than just a repackaging of built-in UNIX tools.
  • asdf21 7y ago
    Hahahhaa. Ha. That's rich. You don't think Facebook is a rebranding of friendster and myspace?
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      Actually one could even think beyond them to stuff like Hi5. But no, there is the business value and the added services that the competition failed to offer to stay in business.
• Dylan16807 7y ago
  > All the initial comments were about how Dropbox simply repackaged the abilities of free built-in linux tools. No. No no no. The now-first comment was asking what the value was for a linux user and also had two other pieces of criticism/advice that were very valid. The same user that posted that also said "You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install piece of functionality for Windows users." Second top-level comment calling it genius. Third calling it good but also sharing one of the other pieces of criticism. Three more calling it good. One asking about scaling. Etc. The thread as a whole is exceptionally positive. Go refresh yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
• skinnymuch 7y ago
  No they weren’t. Dropbox has received majority positive feedback on HN since its first post up until at least a few years ago.