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by WhoCaresAboutIt 211 days ago
The license policy sounds annoying, but the bigger question (to me) is: why are we still talking about FTP in 2025? If you need file transfer, use SFTP/SSH, rsync, rclone, etc. And if you want a GUI, WinSCP has been doing this for free for ages.
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hulitu 210 days ago
> why are we still talking about FTP in 2025?

Why not ? It is a file tranfer protocol.

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ndsipa_pomu 210 days ago
It does support sFTP etc. so is similar to WinSCP, but I think it's an easier GUI for non-technical windows users to get to grips with. However, if they're going to be asshats about licensing, then WinSCP is a clear winner.
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