This is the Hacker News post where Drew Houston presented Dropbox for the first time.
The reception was mostly poor. One guy, though, stands out for making a statement so naive as to be disingenuous.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an
ftpaccount, mounting it locally withcurlftpfs, and then usingsvnorcvson the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
Seriously? Who the hell wants to do all that? That’s on par with
the people who say GHC compiler error messages aren’t confusing or that
man pages are easily readable. I can never tell if they’re being
sarcastic or just stupid.