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Does the author mistake the past with the future? A cloud-based home dir is basically a network file system (samba,afs,nfs,...) We had them for decades and they
by beza1e1 16y ago
Does the author mistake the past with the future? A cloud-based home dir is basically a network file system (samba,afs,nfs,...) We had them for decades and they suck. Dropbox is an improvement, because is not necessary anymore to be "always on".
- tybris 16y agoThe difference is Dropbox has some 21st century common sense that actually make it a viable solution for the cloud: Eventual consistency is good enough but I agree, many of the points he's making are nothing specific to Dropbox.