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A comment on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service. Parent comment

Re:Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service by ascorbic on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:59AM (#49773575)
I heard 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
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Re:Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service by microtonal on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:12AM (#49774020)
Brilliant :). Since this is currently going to woosh for younger visitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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Re:Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service by simonebrunozzi on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:42PM (#49780377)
Great! I thought it was about this, and you saved me the time to look for the exact comment. Wow, 19 years ago... Time really flies.
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