Re: [twitter-dev] Open Sourcing Tweetie for Mac and iPhone

2010-04-10 Thread Chad Etzel
No, Etherpad was completely closed from the start. The team convinced Google to open-source it a few days after acquisition. Guys, this whole thread seems kind of... dunno, immature? Tweetie (in all of its flavors) are the IP of Atebits (and now Twitter, Inc). Demanding that it be open-sourced 5 s

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Sourcing Tweetie for Mac and iPhone

2010-04-10 Thread Abraham Williams
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:44, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > On 04/10/2010 06:29 AM, Lakshman Prasad wrote: > > Facebook acquired Friendfeed and open sourced it. > > > > Google acquired Etherpad and open sourced it. > > IIRC Etherpad *was* open source from the start. Google bought the > company

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Sourcing Tweetie for Mac and iPhone

2010-04-10 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/10/2010 06:29 AM, Lakshman Prasad wrote: > Facebook acquired Friendfeed and open sourced it. > > Google acquired Etherpad and open sourced it. IIRC Etherpad *was* open source from the start. Google bought the company and put its developers to work on Wave, a pale "competitor" of Etherpad. E

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Sourcing Tweetie for Mac and iPhone

2010-04-10 Thread Abraham Williams
Just think of all the patches Chromium has gotten for free. Sign the petition now: http://act.ly/1w1 Abraham On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:25, Josh Roesslein wrote: > We have been seeing Twitter releasing more and more open source software > lately. > I think opening up any cli

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Sourcing Tweetie for Mac and iPhone

2010-04-10 Thread Josh Roesslein
We have been seeing Twitter releasing more and more open source software lately. I think opening up any client acquisitions would help calm some of the panic and also help keep the community in the loop for helping improve the software. I think Twitter has more to gain by open sourcing than keeping

Re: [twitter-dev] Open Sourcing Tweetie for Mac and iPhone

2010-04-10 Thread Andrew Badera
Has Twitter opensourced any previous acquisition? Why would they change now? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Lakshman Prasad wrote: