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I think Google Wave is an undeserved mention in the list of killed off DRM services. First of all, Google supported data export from Google Wave[1]. Additional
by wting 14y ago
I think Google Wave is an undeserved mention in the list of killed off DRM services.
First of all, Google supported data export from Google Wave[1]. Additionally, Google open sourced the project and it's available as Apache Wave[2] or as a protocol[3].
[1] http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/11/multiple-wave-export.html http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/11/multiple-wave-export....
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave
[3] http://www.waveprotocol.org/ http://www.waveprotocol.org/
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoLike most Google open source projects, the open-sourcedness of Wave was open-washing, nothing more. To my knowledge there aren't a lot of Wave services floating around out there, and Wave's codebase was highly coupled, making it difficult for anyone to create a server.
- takluyver 14y agoI'm still amazed that almost everyone just laughed at Wave. We're still trying to break the hold of a proprietary document format (.doc), and now platforms like Google Docs have a proprietary protocol for real-time changes. Google offered us an open, federated version of that protocol - I think we should have seized it with both hands.