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Does anyone know why they didn't open source it in the first place? Couldn't find anything in the article.
by emsy 11y ago
Does anyone know why they didn't open source it in the first place? Couldn't find anything in the article.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoThird point in the FAQ: Why did it take so long to release? Our engineering team was tasked with supporting the release of the phone and then the now announced Snappy project. The team cared deeply about open sourcing this code and spent time wherever they could spare in moving it forward, cleaning up the code so it would work enough outside of the very specific production environment and untangle it of some commercial code that was used at some point.
- ausjke 11y agoexactly, Cannonical is really doing too many things with limited resource at the same time.
- geofft 11y agoThe obvious follow-up question is, given their limited resources, why were they spending some of it on closed-source code based on other people's commercial code?
- chipaca 11y agoWhat're you talking about, there?
- geofft 11y agoThe answer quoted above said they needed to spend time to "untangle it of some commercial code that was used at some point." That just strikes me as a bizarre problem for Canonical to have even had.
- slgeorge 11y agoOnly if your focus is open source. UbuntuOne was conceived of as a service, so to make the project go faster and solve problems commercial products were used. As you'd expect you then have to disentangle that code to release you code as open source - happens all the time in big proprietary code bases that are being open sourced.
- jcastro 11y agoFrom one of the original developers: http://askubuntu.com/a/15295/235 http://askubuntu.com/a/15295/235