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Fast forward a year, HN headline: "Google shutting down uProxy". It looks interesting and I'm sure some number of people will find it useful while it lasts.
by tombrossman 13y ago
Fast forward a year, HN headline: "Google shutting down uProxy".
It looks interesting and I'm sure some number of people will find it useful while it lasts.
- andyjohnson0 13y agoHow exactly could they shut it down? Its a client-side browser extension that uses peer-to-peer connections. It doesn't run on any of Google's infrastructure. I'm getting a bit tired of seeing this comment every time Google release a new product. I understand that people think they're being insightful in saying this, but they're really not.
- dpd126 13y agoFurthermore, it's not even created by Google directly: > "uProxy has been developed at the University of Washington, with help from Brave New Software. The project was seeded by Google Ideas."
- Shish2k 13y agoOk, to rephrase for the pedant: "Google pulls core developers off of uProxy; without leadership, multiple incompatible forks form and quickly die" (Not saying that that will happen, just clarifying what I presume is the grandparent's point)
- andyjohnson0 13y agoI'm not a pedant. And the core developers work for the University of Washington and Brave New Software, not Google. [1]. [1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/new-free-expression-tools-from-google.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/new-free-expressio...
- ma2rten 13y agoI knew that this was going to be a comment before I even opened clicked on the link or looked at the comments. Yes, Google shouldn't have shut down Reader and now get over it.