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Very classy move by both the founders of Appjet and Google.
by GavinB 16y ago
Very classy move by both the founders of Appjet and Google.
- seiji 16y agoI'm pretty sure Appjet and Google have nothing to do with it.
- trun 16y agoI don't see Iba or Greenspan anywhere in the google groups or actively involved in the project on github any more. They're probably working on bigger and better things.
- seiji 16y agoLast I heard they're plenty busy doing Wave stuff at Google's Australia office.
- ErrantX 16y agoIs it just me who thinks that Wave really isn't "bigger and better" than Etherpad as an idea.
- roc 16y agoIf you can implement Etherpad via Wave, I think that makes it "bigger" by definition. At least in terms of the size of the problem-space. And "better" doesn't seem fair to determine, either way, until their Google work ships.
- ErrantX 16y agoMaybe; I can't help thinking, though, that the underwhelming response to Wave compared to that of Etherpad (which was a brilliant idea) is telling. Obviously I'm eager to see what they've been working on - but Im not sure they can save Wave.
- axod 16y agoThe problem is getting people to use it. I think etherpad probably had more chance of mainstream adoption than wave has.
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- GavinB 16y agoYou're right, it looks like they weren't directly involved. "Nothing" might be an exaggeration, given that they offered the source code free . . . It does seem likely that they owned Etherpad.org at some point. Does anyone know if they donated it?
- Locke1689 16y agoActually, since they were bought by Google their IP probably belongs to Google now. Google could have prevented the licensing under the GPL.