As expected, the large majority of comments, on a site dedicated to starting up a business, are how to use free alternatives or stop using it altogether.
1. Businesses also want to minimize expenses. 2. Hacker News, despite its host, is not dedicated to starting up businesses. It has a broader range than that.
All the initial comments were about how Dropbox simply repackaged the abilities of free built-in linux tools.
No. No no no.
The now-first comment was asking what the value was for a linux user and also had two other pieces of criticism/advice that were very valid. The same user that posted that also said "You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install piece of functionality for Windows users."
Second top-level comment calling it genius. Third calling it good but also sharing one of the other pieces of criticism. Three more calling it good. One asking about scaling. Etc. The thread as a whole is exceptionally positive.
Go refresh yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
You don't think Facebook is a rebranding of friendster and myspace?
But no, there is the business value and the added services that the competition failed to offer to stay in business.