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I feel like companies that shut a product down should release source code. Then people who still want to use it can continue development. If the company doesn'

by ikeboy 11y ago

I feel like companies that shut a product down should release source code. Then people who still want to use it can continue development. If the company doesn't offer it anymore, why do they need to keep the code secret?

prodigal_erik 11y ago
That's like trying to move a fully locked-in AWS service to your own hardware. Probably all of its dependencies are Google cloud infrastructure and you have to rewrite the client layer to replace them with anything open.
- ikeboy 11y ago
  There's a desktop Picasa client. That could be released as a standalone.