On 5 August 2010 08:28, Joel Dietz <jdi...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/wave-goodbye-to-google-wave/ > > Kind of strange to actively encourage development by independent developers > and promise future code releases while privately planning to kill the > project...
It kind of irritates me the way Google went about this. They started a community effort to create something new and unique. They got this community effort, and things seemed to be happening. When we could start to see the light at the end of the tunnel, they decided to cancel the project. Instead of officially informing the community via their own discussion forums of what is happening, we first find out via the media outlets. Even then, in their official blog, they haven't acknowledged the contributions made by extensive community efforts - just some vague reference to "numerous loyal fans". Its like the community doesn't matter. So I really think it was always seen by Google management as a commercial/proprietary product, despite the fact it was being advertised as a community effort. That is why it has failed. Alternatively, Google has shown they don't know how to run a community project. They still haven't really explained what this announcement means. Will people lose data they have on Google Wave? I would hope that wave can now be forked and developed independently of Google, with or without Google's help. First step, perhaps, should be to stop calling it Google Wave. Even if Google did decide to change their mind and continue running the show (as other people seem to be suggesting), they would have to show some serious commitment (e.g. releasing all the code as open source). Otherwise I wouldn't be able to trust them not to do the same thing in the future, again. -- Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
