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One learns a lot in 8 years, it turns out.

To be fair, I was making an argument that it was trivial to replicate, and it was... Ubuntu, Google, Microsoft, and several others did just that. Kudos to Dropbox for their unanticipated (by me, anyway) staying power.

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I didn't mean to call you out personally. I think we've all made that mistake before. My point was more that even if something is technically replicable, there is value in making it super easy for the non-technical user.

No worries! When I read it, I chuckled at the shortsightedness, then I noticed the asterisk and thought, "WAIT, THAT WAS ME?!"

It's always interesting when you can look back at yourself and see how much you've grown or learned.

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