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well, the news is they are going open source. Does it matter they were acquired by Dropbox one year ago? Maybe that's exactly why now they are going open source

• baldfat 12y ago
  Well the issue that is unsaid right now is this: "We are shutting down development and are dumping this onto Github if anyone wants to use the code or the community needs to maintain it." This could just mean it's a dead project.
  • clapsclaps 12y ago
    and that there are a great opportunity for open source community to make it better. It's a great piece of software in terms of usability.
    • baldfat 12y ago
      Without a active maintainer unfortunately it is just dead bits. I haven't officially heard anything that this is the case but "usually" these kind of announcements mean that development has stopped. It is still better to do this than just close the door and hide the code, but ...
      • mintplant 12y ago
        See: Google Wave. It's still in the Apache Incubator and doesn't look much different. https://incubator.apache.org/wave/ https://incubator.apache.org/wave/
  • krakensden 12y ago
    IIRC hackpad was originally a form of etherpad. It's gone full circle.