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Something doesn't make sense. From the ambiguity of your description, it sounds as though you own the code, and that you had no formal business relationship wi
by redcircle 14y ago
Something doesn't make sense. From the ambiguity of your description, it sounds as though you own the code, and that you had no formal business relationship with Sparrow, and that you accepted no money from Sparrow (it is really strange that Sparrow would even encourage you into such a position, and that you would put yourself there --- you left them in the situation where they could turn your work down, and develop their own Windows client). If that is all true, then the code is yours, and you can turn it into a Sparrow replacement. But you are giving off a sense of finality, as if what you wrote is useless. This confuses me. Think like an entrepreneur, not an employee. If you have roadblocks to selling the e-mail client yourself, overcome them (e.g., if you are worried about UI copyright, then change your UI, and then sell it). Once you earn money from it, move to writing a Mac version, an iOS version, etc.
- EarlofGrey 14y agoI don't understand this either. Why would someone that didn't work for the company and wasn't being paid be writing code for the company? It all sounds really strange to me.
- mronge 14y agoI do not believe this was officially supported by the Sparrow team as he make it seems...
- everydaypanos 14y agoThe truth is the Sparrow team is a Mac only team. They didn't care much for Windows. If at all. To test the Windows builds, Din Viet used a virtual machine running inside OS X..
- EarlofGrey 14y agoYeah but where did you come in? Why you? Why were you working on a product that you had nothing to do with? I just don't get it at all. Why did you give free labour and free time to a for profit company you had no stake in? See why we are confused?
- kamechan 14y agoApparently, according to the verge, a windows client was not weeks away. http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/21/3174803/sparrow-for-windows-never-existed http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/21/3174803/sparrow-for-window...
- rsanchez1 14y agoSource code, or it didn't happen.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoI think it's safe to say at this point, that this entire story is bollocks. The guy has posted a few comments here, but never to actually provide any information of substance.