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> In conversation, you'll find that analogies are never the exact event they're being compared to, but something parallel enough to evoke a familiar emotion or memory. This isn't math, but you're approaching it as such.

I'm saying that the comments are barely similar at all. Yes, they both suggest how to do something on linux. That's the only similarity.

> answered with...well, gibberish...and tptacek's reply resonated with me and reminded me of the dropbox comment

But the dropbox comment isn't gibberish...

> What I'd really like to ask though is what your motivation is for mounting such a defense.

Because it annoys me when people misrepresent the comment as a fool who couldn't see the value of Dropbox, too attached to some overly-complex system not applicable to normal users. He clearly did see the value of Dropbox. He said right there that it was "very good" for Windows users. And the mocked point was only one out of three.

> I seriously doubt it has to do with it having "very legitimate points" or you would've brought them up by now.

I didn't bring them up because I thought it was obvious, and it would be a waste of time to list them. But fine, I'll do it.

The post has three points:

The point about cobbling something yourself is a bad point. But it was very strictly limited in scope.

The point about not replacing USB drives is both correct and important.

The point about "not being viral" is agreed to be correct by dhouston, because the viral parts were secret at that time.

So that's two good points out of three.




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