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Can you clarify? Like are people saying that Dropbox is easy to replace with OSS? Like ALL it’s functionality?
by motles 5y ago
Can you clarify? Like are people saying that Dropbox is easy to replace with OSS? Like ALL it’s functionality?
- tpetry 5y agoIt‘s a reference to this historic comment when dropbox was first shown on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- brigandish 5y agoThis is the (in)famous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 though, as I wrote, I don't think it's particularly special, it's just the one that gained notoriety. I actually responded to one just this week, they're rife. The optimism bias is a problem even for programmers.