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Does anyone else find the columns "Windows", "Mac OS X", "Linux", and "Other OS" ambiguous? For example, does it mean the application runs on those operating system platforms, or does it mean it just supports synchronizing with their filesystems?
Also, I don't understand why the commercial comparison chart has columns for both "Prior file versions, revision control" and "Restore replaced/deleted files from old versions." Isn't that the same feature? Even more confusing is that almost every piece of software says it can do revision control, but it also says it *can't* restore old files. I don't understand how that can be... isn't the whole point of revision control to be able to restore older versions?** [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zoolander#Mugatu They're the same thing! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!] [[User:Jmontee|Jmontee]] ([[User talk:Jmontee|talk]]) 22:57, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
** Update 17 October 2011 **
Reviewing the article history shows user "Alishoki" created this column "Restore replaced/deleted files from old versions." (including a period at the end of the column header), while indicating that only BestSync possessed this feature among all of the software shown. This suggests the intentions of this modification was in the interests of promoting a feature of BestSync. While in itself is perfectly acceptable, I draw upon personal experience with Risefly (author of BestSync) with which they seemed to possess less-than-desirable knowledge/quality control. I suspect this chart modification was performed by them without understanding that a column for the feature they wanted to illustrate already existed ("revision control"), and that it was incorrect to indicate that none of the other software possessed that feature. Additionally, Risefly is based in Osaka, and the username that made these modifications appears Japanese. For the sake of accuracy, I will manually revert these changes back and eliminate the redundant and inaccurate column for "Restore replaced/deleted files from old versions."
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