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Re:Dropbox and why you should invest in people by crocowhile on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @05:55AM (#2353693)
What do you mean? Dropbox syncs files amongst the computers you own and that is the most used feature I think. It is a sync. (In fact before using Dropbox I was using rsync over ssh.)
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Re:Dropbox and why you should invest in people by wisty on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @06:51AM (#2353789)
Alice has a file. Bob has a copy. They both edit it, and want the edits to be synchronized (by some sort of smart merge). That's the over-engineered syncing solutions Joel is talking about. Not just rsync.

Sorry about the semantics ... I should have been clearer.

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Re:Dropbox and why you should invest in people by js2 on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:53AM (#2353924)
It syncs, but punts on conflict resolution.
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Re:Dropbox and why you should invest in people by epochwolf on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @08:29AM (#2354005)
Which is correct behavior, trying to implement generic file synchronization is doomed to fail.
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Re:Dropbox and why you should invest in people by wisty on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @08:34AM (#2354019)
Yes, but that doesn't stop people trying.
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