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by coldtea 1040 days ago
In the same sense that "Dropbox is a version of curlftpfs plus SVN, and still it got funded!".
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p0w3n3d 1040 days ago
but dropbox is not patented and you are not prevented from making your own CurlFtpFS and SVN system
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coldtea 1040 days ago
That wasn't the point of the analogy though.

It was to drive attention to a dismissive attitude "this is just X+Y, which already exist".

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