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I don't know about you, be if I was the founder of Jaiku I would be very upset. You sold your company to Google, hoping it would become this great tool that eve
by profgubler 18y ago
I don't know about you, be if I was the founder of Jaiku I would be very upset. You sold your company to Google, hoping it would become this great tool that everyone would be using, and then once google gets a hold of it they kill it, because they can't get it back out the door. So it dies before it ever evens has a chance. The company was Google's and they were free to do with it what they like, but that is just sad.
Then again maybe they aren't to sad, because they likely made a good bit of money on the deal.
- woodsier 18y agoThe way I see it, if you're intelligent enough to do it once, you can sure as shit do it again. But you're completely right, it'll surely sting.
- jaxn 18y agoI don't think it would bother me one bit. Especially since they are open sourcing it, so I could be as involved as I wanted to.
- omouse 18y agoThe whole point of Free Software is that you aren't locked in by the producer of your software. It is impossible for a Free Software or open source software project to die unless no one in the world ever uses it. If I were a founder of Jaiku I would be insanely happy because the product hasn't been killed and instead gains a new life this way.