[tlug] Dropbox

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Charles Muller writes:
 > This month's edition of Linux Journal has a piece on Dropbox, where the 
 > writer indicates that this application is becoming a hot item in the 
 > Linux community.
 > 
 > I don't get it. Why would a group of people, most of whom have server 
 > access and the skills to write their own scripts using other kinds of 
 > synchronization tools need something like this?

Because they don't have those skills, or because they need to work
with people who would need to be coerced into installing rsync or the
like.

I used Dropbox for a while, because I inherited a group of students
who were using it, and I won't allow that again.  Too many
change/change conflicts, only aggravated by the occasional add/add
conflict.  I won't use rsync scripts, though, because they're just as
vulnerable.  I'll use a proper VCS.