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JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced

Posted by Soulskill on from the free-and-clear dept.

volume4 writes "The switch has been flipped and Jaiku has been moved to App Engine. Google will no longer be developing Jaiku, so the code and the future of Jaiku is in the hands of the open source community. From the Jaiku blog: 'Today, we are open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine.'" We discussed Google's purchase of Jaiku in 2007, and their subsequent decision to halt development a few months ago.

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  1. Re:Google using MS strategies? by whoop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, the "only" difference is people get to benefit from it. It is hugely preferable to Microsoft's buy-and-charge-outrageous-price or buy-and-discard-to-kill-competition models.

  2. Or you can use plain old PHP/MySQL based Laconica. by Glytch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why continue development for an app that runs on a single platform when one can use an app that can run on any LAMP setup on the planet?