They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Probably that is true, but in the IT world, everyone seems to imitate everyone else. Contrary to what you hear from Apple (Think Different), there is alot of assimilation going on. I am not sure of who is the chicken and who is the egg there, but there are alot of similarity between OS X's Finder and Gnomes Nautilus file browser.
Both have the navigation destinations on the left with folders on the right. Drag and Drop works within both to move files around. Both have the ability to browse not only local drives, but also network shares via multiple protocols.
One thing that Finder has over Nautilus in this arena is that browsing to a network share and "mounting" it allows local programs to read the files as if they were local. Nautilus has some difficulty in this, in that if the program trying to read the file doesnt understand the mount method, it wont read the file. One of the programs that I always had trouble with in this area is (VLC player) .
Both are very good file browsers, but I would have to give the nod to Finder, if for no other reason than the seemingly great ability to open up remote files in programs seamlessly.
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