I think people unfairly poke fun at the Dropbox skepticism on HN.
As 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.
If you can't deliver the value of what you described to normal people, it just doesn't matter. That's why Dropbox is a $7B+ company today - because they were able to commercialize something that previously was only accessible to a few people who knew weird computer commands.
To the normal person none of this is "quite trivial".
EDIT: I missed the joke. I get it now. Well-played OP.
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The Hacker News response to Dropbox is probably the funniest ever.
That comment has been super unfairly characterized over the years. The commenter was being nice and trying to help Drew with his YC application. Past explanations of this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I think people unfairly poke fun at the Dropbox skepticism on HN.
As 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.
Nobody cares about linux users.
If you can't deliver the value of what you described to normal people, it just doesn't matter. That's why Dropbox is a $7B+ company today - because they were able to commercialize something that previously was only accessible to a few people who knew weird computer commands.
To the normal person none of this is "quite trivial".
EDIT: I missed the joke. I get it now. Well-played OP.
You and I have very different definitions of trivial
I have a few qualms with your solution...
"CVS". That gave it away :).
Is this a joke...? God I hope so. Absolutely clueless
Yes, it's a reference to the original HN thread.