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by otterley 329 days ago
> 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...

I don't think the word "trivially" means what you think it means.

[Edit: I now realize the above is a verbatim quote from a naysayer after the Dropbox announcement]
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lynndotpy 329 days ago
Other comments have added context, but this is a Hacker News "copypasta" of sorts, from DropBox's first launch.
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Dylan16807 329 days ago
> I don't think the word "trivially" means what you think it means.

You cut off "for a linux user [in 2007]" and that's a very important part of the sentence.

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