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Yes just like instead of Dropbox for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally w
by scarface_74 2y ago
Yes just like instead of Dropbox 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. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
- imachine1980_ 2y agoI don't check the project deeply yet so I don't comment about it. That's not true Dropbox was in the technical edge when it came, and old time ago, was barely possible, and the recurrent cost of the severs and operation cost is clearly not the same. And pay Foss GUIs are sad state of reality
- scarface_74 2y agoThat comment above was a call out to the (in)famous comment when Dropbox was introduced on HN back in 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 It’s the HN version of “less space than the Nomad. No wireless. Lame” https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026 https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026
- scott01 2y agoI almost didn’t get the reference :)
- gus_massa 2y agoNote that this is only Part I of the original comment. Parts II and III are more interesting (but everybody forgets them).
- scarface_74 2y agoWhere is part II and III?
- gus_massa 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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- huhtenberg 2y agoI recognized this reference.