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motles | 4 years ago

Can you clarify? Like are people saying that Dropbox is easy to replace with OSS? Like ALL it’s functionality?

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tpetry|4 years ago

It‘s a reference to this historic comment when dropbox was first shown on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

This is the (in)famous comment 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.