Infinit announces Project Dropboxe

Post by apolretom » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 4:18 PM UTC

koluft wrote: post #97

criley2 wrote: post #93

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>I think the parent comment meant that Infinite is a word, and also a sensible name for Dropbox to name their product. Dropboxe is a silly neologism that only makes sense in the context of Dropbox's recent press, and not a good name for a product outside of this context. * Infinit is not releasing a product, this is a satirical post which "rebrands" their base service under a faux name. * Dropbox is releasing a servi…

Such are the risks of naming your company after a common word that describes the product.

Post by maaku » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 4:24 PM UTC

notacoward wrote: post #47

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You didn't read the post, did you? > Sorry Dropbox, we couldn't resist. It's quite an honor that you decided to use our name for something we've been building with our peer to peer file system over the last few years.

It was recognizable as satire already, but that part made it even more crystal clear. Dropbox would get thrown out on "fair use" grounds PDQ.

Post by virtualritz » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 4:29 PM UTC

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mtrn wrote: post #12

Never heard of infinit.sh, but it looks great. The repo is almost empty, though ( https://github.com/infinit/infinit ). Is the code completely open source? Could I setup infinit.sh inside my own infrastructure?

We're open sourcing parts of our code as soon as we consider it modular and well documented enough. We started with our build system but the plan is to open source everything over the coming weeks! And yes, that's exactly why it was made for. Have a look at our examples of deployments: https://infinit.sh/documentation/deployments

Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

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What you say made me think of hamachi, a nice vpn overlay network for windows (at first) from the late 90s, and guess what happened to it? > For paid subscribers Hamachi runs in the background on idle computers. The feature was previously available to all users, but became restricted to paid subscribers only [0] More short sighted business practices as usual. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogMeIn_Hamachi

You should check out the ipop project [0], the technology behind socialvpn and groupvpn. They have an active and extensive github. [1] The problem with technology like Hamachi, and even IPOP, is that the nature of NAT traversal means that for any given p2p network, "supernodes" will always be required. IPOP uses STUN/TURN (the same technology as WebRTC) for NAT-traversal. According to Google usage stats (can't find t…

Post by prodmerc » Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 5:20 PM UTC

fredoliveira wrote: post #46

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Apple - used to be a fruit, now it's a bunch of dicks :D

I think you took a wrong turn on the internet. Have a look at the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html